The 2022 Nitto ATP Finals doubles champions, Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury, will return to Turin to defend their title from 12-19 November.
Ram and Salisbury have certified as a staff for the fifth consecutive 12 months. They’re assured to both end contained in the Prime 7 of the Pepperstone ATP Reside Doubles Groups Rankings, or qualify by being the highest-placed Grand Slam champions ending the common season between eighth and twentieth.
The American-British duo gained this 12 months’s US Open, their third consecutive triumph on the season’s remaining main. Rinky Hijikata and Jason Kubler, at the moment seventeenth within the Pepperstone ATP Reside Doubles Groups Rankings, emerged victorious on the Australian Open, however can’t end increased than Ram/Salisbury.
If Ram/Salisbury end within the Prime 7, Hijikata/Kubler will compete in Turin. If they don’t, the Australians will miss out on the season finale.
Ram and Salisbury have completed their season effectively after an uncharacteristically sluggish begin. All three of their 2023 titles — Lyon, the US Open and Vienna — have come because the finish of Might.
The five-time Nitto ATP Finals qualifiers additionally reached an ATP Masters 1000 remaining in Toronto. The defending champions personal a 12-5 document on the year-end championships and didn’t lose a match on the Pala Alpitour final 12 months. Additionally they made the ultimate in 2021.
The opposite groups which have already certified are Ivan Dodig/Austin Krajicek, Wesley Koolhof/Neal Skupski and Rohan Bopanna/Matthew Ebden.