Mahut/Herbert Return To London Final

Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut advanced to their second straight Nitto ATP Finals championship match on Saturday, beating 2017 finalists Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo 6-3, 7-6(4).

The Career Grand Slam winners extended their winning streak to eight matches after one hour and 34 minutes, breaking serve on four occasions to advance to their third team final of the year (2-0). Since arriving at the Rolex Paris Masters last month, Herbert and Mahut have won each of the 16 sets they have contested.

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Herbert and Mahut will be hoping to go one better than last year in Sunday’s championship match. In 2018, the Frenchmen failed to convert one championship point en route to a 7-5, 1-6, 11-13 defeat against Mike Bryan and Jack Sock. Herbert and Mahut are aiming to become the first French team to win the season-ending event since Michael Llodra and Fabrice Santoro’s 2005 triumph in Shanghai.

The seventh seeds will face Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus in the final. Klaasen and Venus saved two match points to beat Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah 6-7(5), 7-6(10), 10-6.

Kubot and Melo end their 2019 season with a 46-22 team record. The Polish-Brazilian pairing reached six finals this year, capturing the Winston-Salem Open trophy in August.

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