Jack Draper received the primary doubles match of his profession after teaming up with world No 1 Jannik Sinner in Montreal.
The British No 1 joined Italian Sinner, the Australian Open champion, in an all-star scratch pairing on the Nationwide Financial institution Open as preparations for the US Open started in earnest.
The 22-year-olds didn’t appear to be that they had by no means performed collectively earlier than as they ran away with the primary set in opposition to Belgians Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen, the sixteenth seeds, with out dropping a sport.
Gille and Vliegen, an skilled doubles pair – albeit crushed by Andy Murray and Dan Evans on the Olympics – levelled the match after a one-sided tie-break.
However Draper and Sinner recovered from 7-4 down within the match tie-break to win 6-0 6-7 10-8.
Draper, whose final outing was a defeat on the Olympics by Taylor Fritz, had solely performed three ATP doubles matches in his profession and misplaced all of them.
Sinner, who not like his new companion truly has a doubles rating, was enjoying his first match since Wimbledon having missed Paris 2024 with tonsillitis.
The duo are two of plenty of singles gamers, together with Russian world quantity 5 Daniil Medvedev, within the doubles draw on the lookout for further court docket time forward of Flushing Meadows.
They’ll meet American Ben Shelton and Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan within the subsequent spherical.
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The world primary Jannik Sinner beat Hubert Hurkacz to win his first ATP Tour title on grass
Shelton and Bublik progressed after Britain’s Henry Patten and companion Harri Heliovaara, the Wimbledon champions, needed to retire from their match after colliding with one another as each went for an overhead.
Draper goes again to the day job on Wednesday when he faces Australian Jordan Thompson within the singles.
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