Inspired Krawietz/Puetz stun Arevalo/Pavic in Turin

p a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/kevin-krawietz/kb92/overview'Kevin Krawietz/a and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/tim-puetz/pc68/overview'Tim Puetz/a sprang an early upset in style on Monday at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/nitto-atp-finals/605/overview'Nitto ATP Finals/a. /p

p The German duo sank top seeds a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/marcelo-arevalo/a853/overview'Marcelo Arevalo/a and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/mate-pavic/pf00/overview'Mate Pavic/a 6-3, 6-4 in the opening match of a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/bob-bryan/b588/overview'Bob Bryan/a Group at the prestigious season finale. Krawietz and Puetz clinched the only break of serve in each set en route to a 63-minute triumph, during which they won 89 per cent (32/36) of points behind first serves. /p

p By notching victory on their a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/nitto-atp-finals/605/overview'Nitto ATP Finals/a team debut, the eighth-seeded Krawietz and Puetz improved to 4-2 in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series with Arevalo and Pavic. All six of those meetings have been played across 2024. /p

blockquote class="twitter-tweet"p lang="en" dir="ltr"STATEMENT MADE ????br /br /a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/kevin-krawietz/kb92/overview'Kevin Krawietz/a and a href="https://twitter.com/GoldenSetTim?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"@GoldenSetTim/a turn on the style to defeat the top seeds Arevalo/Pavic in the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/bob-bryan/b588/overview'Bob Bryan/a Group!a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NittoATPFinals?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"#NittoATPFinals/a a href="https://t.co/czINdiCP7f"pic.twitter.com/czINdiCP7f/a/pmdash; ATP Tour (@atptour) a href="https://twitter.com/atptour/status/1855940722651775457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"November 11, 2024/a/blockquote script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"/script

p “Of course to start with a win is very important, also for the whole tournament,” said Krawietz. “We get a good feeling on the big court, and I think everything was working very well.” /p

p “First and foremost we served well,” said Puetz. “We took care of our serve, which is key in here, especially in doubles on a fast surface like this. I thought we did very well. Had one kind of shaky service game in the first set. Besides that, it was pretty clean, so that’s key. The rest is a bonus, so it was a great match.” /p

p Hamburg champions Krawietz and Puetz, who also defeated Arevalo and Pavic in the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/us-open/560/overview'US Open/a semi-finals en route to their maiden Grand Slam championship match, are now 41-18 for the season. They will next turn their attention to their second group match against one of the other two pairs in a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/bob-bryan/b588/overview'Bob Bryan/a Group, a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/simone-bolelli/ba98/overview'Simone Bolelli/a/a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/andrea-vavassori/va08/overview'Andrea Vavassori/a or a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/rohan-bopanna/b757/overview'Rohan Bopanna/a/a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/matthew-ebden/e690/overview'Matthew Ebden/a. /p

p Monday’s defeat was a setback in Arevalo and Pavic’s bid to clinch ATP Year-End Doubles No. 1 presented by PIF honours. The Salvadoran-Croation team still leads the PIF ATP Live Doubles Teams Rankings but is just 210 points clear of second-placed a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/marcel-granollers/g710/overview'Marcel Granollers/a and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/horacio-zeballos/z184/overview'Horacio Zeballos/a. /p

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