Jamie Murray and Michael Venus delivered a rock-solid show Tuesday to ease previous Nikola Cacic and Novak Djokovic and kick-start their marketing campaign on the
Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati.
The British-Kiwi pairing transformed three of 4 break factors they earned to prevail 6-4, 6-2 towards Cacic and Djokovic, who was taking part in his first aggressive match since his Wimbledon last defeat to Carlos Alcaraz. Murray and Venus crucially saved three break factors en path to the primary set earlier than accelerating to a 65-minute first-round triumph on the hard-court ATP Masters 1000 occasion.
Nikola Cacic in motion on Tuesday alongside Novak Djokovic, who was competing in Cincinnati for the primary time since 2019. Photo: Peter Staples/ATP Tour
Their subsequent project in Ohio is a second-round conflict with high seeds Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski. Murray (who gained the 2018 Cincinnati crown alongside Bruno Soares) and Venus have loved a powerful first season collectively to this point, lifting ATP Tour titles in Dallas, Banja Luka and Geneva.
Currently twelfth within the Pepperstone ATP Live Doubles Teams Rankings, Murray and Venus can propel themselves into stronger competition for Nitto ATP Finals qualification by persevering with their good type in Cincinnati.
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