Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek lifted their first ATP Tour title together on Saturday at the Open Parc Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes Lyon, downing second seeds Maximo Gonzalez and Marcelo Melo 6-3, 6-4.
The top seeds, who saved two match points in their quarter-final win over David Vega Hernandez and Rafael Matos, won 82 per cent (27/33) of their first-serve points against Gonzalez and Melo to triumph after 78 minutes.
The Croatian-American tandem was competing for the fifth time together, with their best result before this week a run to the final in Winston-Salem last August. They arrived in Lyon having not won a match as a team this year.
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Dodig, 37, has now won 17 tour-level doubles trophies, including five ATP Masters 1000 crowns and two Grand Slam titles. It is the fifth time the 31-year-old Krajicek has clinched a tour-level trophy, with all of his successes coming at ATP 250 events. It is the first time the American has won a trophy since Kitzbühel in 2020.
Gonzalez and Melo joined forces for the first time this week. The Argentine has lifted 11 tour-level titles with eight different partners, while Brazilian Melo has clinched 35 tour-level trophies, including nine Masters 1000 crowns.
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