Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek capped per week of tie-break stress with an exciting championship match victory on Sunday afternoon on the ABN AMRO Open, the place the third seeds downed Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden 7-6(5), 2-6, 12-10 to say their first title of 2023.

Dodig and Krajicek confronted a championship level at 9/10 within the Match Tie-break however reeled off three straight factors to clinch their fourth ATP Tour title as a group. They had earlier additionally rallied from 3-5 to say a topsy-turvy opening set that featured six breaks of serve.

The Croatian-American duo was often pressured to dig deep throughout its title run on the indoor hard-court ATP 500. Dodig and Krajiceck prevailed in 4 tie-breaks and two Match Tie-breaks throughout their 4 matches on the Rotterdam Ahoy, the place they had been competing for the primary time as a group.

Bopanna and Ebden transformed 5 of eight break factors within the last however had been left to rue missed possibilities at key moments within the one-hour, 42-minute encounter. The Indian-Australian pair let slip two set factors within the tenth recreation of a primary set that they finally misplaced earlier than additionally lacking their probability to clinch victory within the Match Tie-break.

Since turning into a full-time partnership final April, Dodig and Krajicek have lifted tour-level titles in Lyon, Naples, Basel and now Rotterdam, whereas additionally they competed on the 2022 Nitto ATP Finals. Sunday’s triumph was Dodig’s second in Rotterdam, after he additionally lifted the trophy there in 2017 alongside Marcel Granollers.