$2.6 Million Dubai Duty Free Championships 2018

[jaydeep]

The wild-card paring of Lee and Cerretani started with a dominating win over Haider-Maurer and Mayer ... Next, they r facing the 4th seed Klaasen and Venus.

[R1] (WC) Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (LL) Andreas Haider-Maurer (AUT)/ Florian Mayer (GER) 63 61

[QF] (WC) Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (4) Raven Klaasen (RSA)/ Michael Venus (NZL)

[PKBasu]

I was about to throw in the towel (to Samarth), and lament that we had jinxed our players by starting this thread — but finally there is a faint glimmer of hop in Leander.

[jai_in_canada]

Leander is a PaCe bowler!

[PKBasu]

It’s still not over! PaCe beat Klaasen/Venus 26 64 10-7, and are through to the semifinal in Dubai!!
A measure of revenge for Venus/Klaasen beating Bopanna/Roger-Vasselin in R1. Venus of course is the reigning FO doubles champion. Good win!
They play Dzhumhur/Krajinovic in the SF.

[sameerph]

I am relived that a thread started by me did not prove totally disastrous -

Excellent win and Leander defends his last year's Dubai SF points.

Next,

[SF] (WC) Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Damir Dzmhur (BIH) / Filip Krajinovic (SRB)

[jai_in_canada]

Jamie Lee picked up the PaCe in the STB! What an awesome win over last week's title winners (in Marseilles)!
Lee's making a case for Davis Cup inclusion! Go Lee!

[jai_in_canada]

Leander PaCe on court now.
Dodge Ram went off the road, though.

[RohitG]

Paes won!

[arjun2761]

[SF] (WC) Jamie Cerretani (USA)/Leander Paes (IND) d Damir Dzmhur (BIH) / Filip Krajinovic (SRB) 6-4, 6-2

[F] Jamie Cerretani(USA)/Leander Paes (IND) v. J. Rojer (NED)/Horia Tecau (ROM)

Paes-Cerretani have been very productive as a pair this year. Perhaps, they should try to connect for the rest of the year...

[PKBasu]

Making the Dubai final takes Leander to 46 in the live rankings. Cerretani is at 69 (and his career-high is 45). This is the pairing that has worked best for LP this year. Tough final coming up! Let’s win it Lee!

[PKBasu]

PaCe are ranked 22 in the race to London, just behind Bopanna/Roger-Vasselin at 20. Their opponents in the Dubai final are ranked 9, although their individual doubles rankings are 12th and 13th. If PaCe win the final, they will jump to #13 in the race ranking. The case for making their pairing permanent at least for this year is strong.

[sameerph]

Making the Dubai final takes Leander to 46 in the live rankings.

Also he is just 2 spots behind Divij who is at 44 in live rankings. A title will take him ahead of Divij at India #2.

He is certainly making a strong case for davis cup selection.

[rajitghosh]

Davis cup team is selected by Mahesh. Ranking is not a criteria. Being close to him is.

[sameerph]

True, there is also AITA and selectors in mix. It will be difficult for them to ignore Leander if he us ranked higher than Divij and winning tournaments.

[jai_in_canada]

Leander picked up the PaCe in the semis! Well, so do Jamie! Great to see Lee in the finals of a 500!
Mr. Bhupathi, are you watching?