Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz etched their names on an exclusive list in German tennis history during the Rolex Shanghai Masters on Sunday.
With their 6-4, 6-4 victory in the championship match against Andre Goransson and Alex Michelsen in China, Krawietz and Puetz became only the second all-German duo to win a doubles title in the history of the ATP Masters 1000 series (since 1990). The players on that list they joined? A pair of illustrious singles stars include former PIF ATP Rankings No. 1 Boris Becker and former world No. 2 Michael Stich, who together won the 1992 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters doubles crown.
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Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz beat Goransson/Michelsen 6-4 6-4 to capture their first ATP Masters 1000 crown as an all-German team.@SH_RolexMasters | #RolexShanghaiMasters pic.twitter.com/umnG6NsRxt
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“Let’s not in any way put ourselves in the same category as these two,” said the 37-year-old Puetz after winning his second Masters 1000 crown (he also won the 2021 Rolex Paris Masters alongside New Zealander Michael Venus.”[My first Masters 1000 title] was very special. Actually, Michael Stich texted me after the first one. I didn’t know him at all, and it was very nice of him. He sent me a very nice message after I won in Paris.
“It is not more fun with Kevin, but it is certainly different to win it with a fellow countryman… We are actually real friends, also with our teams. We visit each other, even if we do not have tournaments. So it is very nice to share that. Victories are of course nice, but also to share in defeats. I think that all in all we are just happy with this phase of our career and our lives to be together in those moments.”
Krawietz and Puetz converted three of the eight break points they earned in Sunday’s final, according to Infosys ATP Stats. They let a 3-1 lead slip away in the second set, but immediately grabbed a second, decisive break of the set in the seventh game on their way to an 83-minute victory.
Krawietz and Puetz cruised to the Shanghai title after losing just one set and moved up one spot to sixth in the PIF ATP Live Doubles Teams Rankings. They are well placed to qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals, where they lifted the trophy last year.
“We reached the semi-finals, and after the semi-finals I was of course happy to be in the final,” 33-year-old Krawietz reflected on his run in Shanghai with Puetz. “Of course you want to win the final. There were some tight moments here and there of course, so I had to think about how to deal with that.
“In the end it went in the right direction, so very happy, very proud. Now let’s enjoy the moment.”
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