'Sometimes In Sports It’s Shock Therapy': Dodig/Polasek Split
12-Aug-2021 23:52:00 | ATP World Tour
Ivan Dodig and Filip Polasek won this year’s Australian Open and competed in the Nitto ATP Finals in their first season as a team in 2019. But after Wimbledon, the Croatian-Slovakian duo ended their two-year partnership.
“What we achieved in two years was simply amazing. We had unbelievable success. We won an ATP Masters [1000], we won a Grand Slam, we played the [Nitto ATP] Finals. It was simply great results,” Dodig said. “We won a lot of tournaments together, and we always have it with us. Nobody can take that. We have great memories and we are still great friends. We still support each other.”
After reaching the Miami semi-finals, Dodig and Polasek did not win consecutive matches together again. They sat down to discuss their partnership and mutually decided it was best to move forward with new partners.
Dodig is competing with India’s Rohan Bopanna and Polasek is playing with Australia’s John Peers. Bopanna and Dodig made the Montreal final together in 2017, while Polasek and two-time Nitto ATP Finals champion Peers competed as a team for the first time last week in Washington.
Read More