LONDON: The second-year pairing of Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau has clinched the year-end No. 1 Emirates ATP Doubles Team Ranking for the first time, halting Bob and Mike Bryan’s six-year run atop the charts.<\/p>\n
The Dutch-Romanian duo is guaranteed the year-end No. 1 honour by winning their semi-final match-up against the Americans 6-4, 6-4 at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. Had the Bryans won Saturday’s winner-takes-all clash, they would have ended the year No. 1.\n<\/p>\n
Rojer and Tecau will now face Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea in Sunday’s final at The O2 in London.<\/p>\n
“It feels pretty darn good right about now,” said Rojer. “There was so much riding on this match for us. We put in a lot of hard work, like many of the other teams do, of course. To have it come down to one match to play for the year-end No. 1 spot, it’s just a dream scenario. On top of that, to win it with a lot of our friends and family here, it’s just really cool.”<\/p>\n
“We’re very happy to get this award,” said Tecau, a resident of Constanta, Romania. “But we have to snap out of it quick, because we have a difficult match tomorrow. I’m playing against my countryman Florin. We know each other really well. I’m really excited to play the final here against him. It’s a big achievement for our country.”<\/p>\n
Rojer and Tecau made a strong start to the season in Australia, finishing as runners-up in Sydney (l. to Bopanna\/Nestor) and reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open (l. to Bolelli\/Fognini). They captured their first title of 2015 in Rotterdam (d. Murray\/Peers) before a runner-up finish in Nice (l. to Pavic\/Venus) and reaching the Roland Garros semi-finals (l. to Dodig\/Melo).<\/p>\n
Their crowning achievement came at SW19 as they lifted their first Grand Slam trophy at The Championships, Wimbledon (d. Murray\/Peers). They would later reach the quarter-finals at the US Open (l. to Herbert\/Mahut).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LONDON: The second-year pairing of Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau has clinched the year-end No. 1 Emirates ATP Doubles Team Ranking for the first time, halting Bob and Mike Bryan’s six-year run atop the charts.<\/p>\n
The Dutch-Romanian duo is guaranteed the year-end No. 1 honour by winning their semi-final match-up against the Americans 6-4, 6-4 at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. Had the Bryans won Saturday’s winner-takes-all clash, they would have ended the year No. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[12579,12577,12578,10511],"class_list":["post-24280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world-tennis-news","tag-bob-and-mike-bryan","tag-emirates-atp-doubles-team-ranking","tag-horia-tecau","tag-jean-julien-rojer"],"yoast_head":"\n