Polasek/Dodig End Debut Season With Win In London

Ivan Dodig and Filip Polasek ended their season on a high at the Nitto ATP Finals on Thursday, beating Group Jonas Bjorkman winners Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus 7-6(4), 6-4.

The eighth seeds, who end their first team appearance at the Nitto ATP Finals with a 1-2 record, fired 19 aces to extend their unbeaten FedEx ATP Head2Head record against Klaasen and Venus to three matches. The Croatian-Slovakian duo finishes its debut season as a team with a 27-11 record. Dodig and Polasek made their team debut at the Turkish Airlines Open Antalya in June, before capturing trophies at ATP Masters 1000-level in Cincinnati and ATP 500-level in Beijing.

Despite suffering their first loss at this year’s event, Klaasen and Venus win Group Jonas Bjorkman with a 2-1 record. The fifth seeds move through to the semi-finals at The O2 for the first time and will face the second-placed team from Group Max Mirnyi in the last four on Saturday.

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