Playing their first tour-level final together in just their third event of the year, Mektic and Ram staged a comeback to edge the all-Italian pair 4-6, 6-3, 10-5 in a 90-minute clash to win their first trophy as a team. With the win, they are up 196 spots to No. 25 in the PIF ATP Live Doubles Teams Rankings.<\/p>\n
“Tennis, right? Crazy stories. This is our third tournament together, even though we know each other for three decades, probably. Thank you so much, I can’t thank you enough, and it was a pleasure playing this week,” Mektic said to Ram during the trophy presentation ceremony.<\/p>\n
The Croatian-American duo won 87 per cent (34\/39) of their first-serve points, according to Infosys ATP Stats, to claim their first Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting with Musetti and Sonego. En route to the title match, they defeated Julian Cash<\/a> and Lloyd Glasspool<\/a> in the semi-finals and snapped the pair\u2019s 22-match winning streak. <\/p>\n By reaching the final, Mektic joined Rohan Bopanna<\/a> and Mate Pavic<\/a> as the only active doubles players to reach finals of all nine ATP Masters 1000 events. With the win, he earned his 11th Masters 1000 crown, the most among active players. At 41 years and 4 months, Ram became the second-oldest men\u2019s doubles champion in Cincinnati in the Open Era, after 42-year-old Daniel Nestor<\/a>, who triumphed in 2015 with Edouard Roger-Vasselin<\/a>.<\/p>\n “We have known each other a really long time…We’ve played some great matches against each other. It is so nice to have him [Mektic] on my side of the net,” Ram said. <\/p>\n Musetti and Sonego were aiming to become the first all-Italian pair to win a Masters 1000 title since the series began in 1990. Musetti was also aiming to become the youngest ATP Masters 1000 doubles champion since a 20-year-old Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a> triumphed at the 2020 Rolex Paris Masters<\/a> with Hubert Hurkacz<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doubles Mektic\/Ram clinch first Masters 1000 trophy in Cincinnati Croatian-American duo defeats Musetti\/Sonego in the final August 18,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-91284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"It](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755500647_670_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/)
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