{"id":295607,"date":"2023-11-19T18:24:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T18:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=295607"},"modified":"2023-11-19T18:24:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T18:24:17","slug":"britains-salisbury-and-usas-ram-defend-atp-finals-doubles-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/tennis\/britains-salisbury-and-usas-ram-defend-atp-finals-doubles-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&apos;s Salisbury and USA&apos;s Ram defend ATP Finals doubles title"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Britain&#8217;s Joe Salisbury and USA&#8217;s Rajeev Ram retain their ATP Finals doubles title with straight set victory over Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Britain&#8217;s Joe Salisbury and USA&#8217;s Rajeev Ram defended ATP Finals doubles title<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Salisbury and Ram overcame\u00a0\u00a0Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos 6-3, 6-4<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Joe Salisbury and America&#8217;s\u00a0Rajeev Ram defended their ATP Finals doubles title as they overcame Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos.<\/p>\n<p>Salisbury and Ram prevailed in straight sets in Italy as they won 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>The Anglo-American duo are the first successive champions since 2017, when Henri Kontinen and John Peers retained their title.<\/p>\n<p>Salisbury stated it was an &#8216;incredible&#8217; feeling to achieve such success.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by BBC Sport, Salisbury said:\u00a0&#8216;There is something very special about this place.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/19\/16\/77990125-0-image-a-1_1700410670504.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rajeev Ram (L) of USA and Joe Salisbury (R) of Great Britain celebrate after winning the\u00a0ATP Finals doubles<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/19\/16\/77990585-12767865-image-a-19_1700411695787.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Anglo-American duo overcame Marcel Granollers (L) and Horacio Zeballos (R)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I feel so lucky to be playing here and to have the success we have had in Turin is incredible.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Although they faced a break point in their opening service game, Salisbury and Ram managed to establish a 3-1 lead and proceeded to win the first set.<\/p>\n<p>They were made to wait for victory in the second set but eventually managed to prevail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is the tenth successive time that Salisbury and Ram have won a match at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In last year&#8217;s final they got the better of Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/19\/16\/77990609-12767865-image-m-21_1700411836266.jpg\" height=\"527\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Salisbury stated that it is an &#8216;incredible&#8217; feeling to achieve such success in Turin<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/article-12767865\/Britains-Joe-Salisbury-USAs-Rajeev-Ram-defend-ATP-Finals-doubles-title-victory-against-Marcel-Granollers-Horacio-Zeballos.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Britain&#8217;s Joe Salisbury and USA&#8217;s Rajeev Ram retain their ATP Finals doubles title with straight set victory over Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos Britain&#8217;s Joe <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/tennis\/britains-salisbury-and-usas-ram-defend-atp-finals-doubles-title\/\" title=\"Britain&amp;apos;s Salisbury and USA&amp;apos;s Ram defend ATP Finals doubles title\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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