Bolelli/Vavassori successfully defend Rotterdam crown
Fourth seeds Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori successfully defended their ABN AMRO Open title on Sunday with a revenge win.
Three weeks after losing to Ray Ho and Hendrik Jebens in the second round at the Australian Open, Bolelli and Vavassori beat the qualifiers 6-3, 6-4 to win the trophy in Rotterdam. With the win, they became the first team to successfully defend the title at the ATP 500 since Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic achieved the feat in 2009-10.
“Very happy. It’s one of our favourite tournaments of the season. For sure the best indoors, and we love to play in this beautiful stadium,” Vavassori said. “We played a great level all week, improving match by match and we will try to continue this way and go with confidence to Doha and Dubai.”
“Really happy with the trophy,” Bolelli added. “Back to back is always nice, we defended the title really good this year and this is our first trophy of 2026. So this is good confidence for us for the rest of the season.”
The Italians dropped their only set of the week in the semi-finals. In the championship match, they saved three of the four break points they faced, according to Infosys ATP Stats, and converted all three break points they earned, emerging victorious in 67 minutes. With the win, they claimed their eighth trophy as a team.
Arribage/Olivetti claim Dallas trophy
Theo Arribage and Albano Olivetti maintained their impressive start to the season by winning their third title of the year at the Nexo Dallas Open on Sunday.
The Frenchmen, who triumphed at the ATP 250 event in Montpellier last week, stunned top seeds Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos 6-3, 7-6(4) in the Dallas final. They fired 10 aces and won 83 per cent (40/48) of their first-serve points in their maiden Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting with Granollers and Zeballos. They also defeated second seeds and Australian Open champions Christian Harrison and Neal Skupski in the quarter-finals.
They are up two spots to third in the PIF ATP Live Doubles Teams Rankings with their Dallas triumph and are the first Frenchmen to win the doubles title in event history.
[ATP APP]Luz/Matos win in Buenos Aires
Orlando Luz and Rafael Matos ended Andrea Collarini and Nicolas Kicker’s hopes of winning a title together on home soil at the IEB+ Argentina Open on Sunday when they defeated the Argentines 7-5, 6-3 to clinch the Buenos Aires crown.
“We were happy to have a lot of Brazilians here,” Luz said. “They pushed us since the first round…We are very happy that people were cheering for us today.”
The duo fended off the challenge posed by the Argentines in one hour and 32 minutes, saving four of the five break points they faced.
“We had to fight a lot during the points and all the matches,” Matos said. “It was very tough to play, tough conditions.”
Collarini and Kicker were competing in their maiden tour-level final and were aiming to become the first all-Argentine team to clinch the title in Buenos Aires since Maximo Gonzalez and Horacio Zeballos achieved the feat in 2019.
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