South Africa's world-acclaimed doubles player Raven Klaasen and his partner Ben McLachlan recorded their first ATP Tour title of the season with a win at the CitiOpen. Tennis By Herman_Gibbs IOLsport
CAPE TOWN - South Africa's world-acclaimed doubles player Raven Klaasen and his Japanese partner Ben McLachlan captured the Citi Open doubles trophy in Washington on Sunday night to record their first ATP Tour title of the season.
The fourth-seeded pair overcame second seeds British Neal Skupski and Michael Venus of New Zealand 7-6, 6-4 to lift the ATP 500 title. Klaasen and McLachlan did not drop a set this week en route to their second ATP Tour title as a team – they also won the 2020 Cologne-2 in Germany together. “Yeah, I mean, fantastic,” defending champion Klaasen told ASAP Sports. “Ben and I have had a long season. We've had a couple of big wins. To finally get over the hump, we have lost a couple of semis, it's nice to finish things off. Especially in Washington kind of where we were defending. I had won the title in 2019. It was nice to come out here and do it again.
“He carried me the first set, for sure. I thought we had a good start and unfortunately went down a break. In the second set, we were hanging on for dear life. We probably were the worse team in the second set, but being together for more than a year now, the experience helps, and hopefully, we can build on that.”
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