{"id":602743,"date":"2026-04-12T20:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602743\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T20:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:49:15","slug":"kevin-krawietz-and-tim-puetz-triumph-in-monte-carlo-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602743\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz triumph in Monte-Carlo | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Match Report<br \/>\n    Krawietz\/Puetz triumph in Monte-Carlo<\/p>\n<p>Germans defeated Arevalo\/Pavic in Match Tie-break<\/p>\n<p>April 12, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/mcdoubles-2026-final.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Puetz\/Kevin Krawietz lift the trophy in Monte-Carlo.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Corinne Dubreuil\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n<p>        Tim Puetz\/Kevin Krawietz lift the trophy in Monte-Carlo.<br \/>\n        By Sam Jacot<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/kevin-krawietz\/kb92\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Krawietz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/tim-puetz\/pc68\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Puetz<\/a> captured their second ATP Masters 1000 title as a team on Sunday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/monte-carlo\/410\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters<\/a>, where they fought back to defeat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/marcelo-arevalo\/a853\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcelo Arevalo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/mate-pavic\/pf00\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mate Pavic<\/a> 4-6, 6-2, 10-8.<\/p>\n<p>The Germans prevailed in a Match Tie-break in the semi-finals against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/hugo-nys\/n670\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hugo Nys<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/edouard-roger-vasselin\/r613\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edouard Roger-Vasselin<\/a> and delivered again in the key moments in the final, with Krawietz striking a return winner on match point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe broke twice in the second set, so we found some solutions there,\u201d Krawietz said in his on-court interview. \u201cThe first set we felt comfortable but doubles is so quick and can change in such a quick time. Luckily we came through and won in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Krawietz and Puetz are the first all-German team to triumph in the Principality since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/boris-becker\/b028\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boris Becker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/michael-stich\/s351\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Stich<\/a> in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great week and a great start to the clay-court season for us, which in the past we haven\u2019t done as well as we would have liked,\u201d Puetz said. \u201cThis is a great tournament and has been a great week for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A crucial moment in the match came at 2-3 in the second set, when the Germans immediately responded to losing serve by breaking. Krawietz and Puetz rode momentum to an 84-minute victory and celebrated with their team courtside. They now lead Arevalo and Pavic 6-2 in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series.<\/p>\n<p>Kraiwetz and Puetz have won six trophies together, highlighted by their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/nitto-atp-finals\/605\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> run in 2024 and victory at the Masters 1000 event in Shanghai in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Arevalo and Pavic were competing together in the Monte-Carlo final for the first time. The fifth seeds have enjoyed success on clay in the past, winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/roland-garros\/520\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Garros<\/a> in 2024 and triumphing at the Masters 1000 event in Rome in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/atp-number-one-club\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768144283_348_atp-no-1-club-banner-article.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cATP\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Krawietz\/Puetz triumph in Monte-Carlo Germans defeated Arevalo\/Pavic in Match Tie-break April 12, 2026 Corinne Dubreuil\/ATP Tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-602743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}