Welcome back to Doubles Take, your weekly look at the teams on the ATP and WTA tours as they march toward tournament-winning glory.

KEEP IT ROLLING

Another week, another huge clay-court title for Yung-Jan Chan and Martina Hingis. Fresh off their title in Madrid, the pair upped their winning streak to eight matches. They beat top seeds Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in the final, 7-5, 7-6 (4).

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You have to wonder if it was divine intervention that got them through.

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The duo barely survived their opening match, rallying from a set down to defeat the unheralded pairing of Nao Hibino and Alicja Rosolska. After getting through, Chan and Hingis didn’t drop another set on the way to their third title of the year.

Finals day happened to mark a special anniversary for Hingis: It was 11 years to the day that she won her 41st singles title—in Rome, no less.

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VIVE LA FRANCE

For the past couple of years, Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut have been one of the best doubles teams on the ATP tour. The two-time Grand Slam champions, a threat on any surface, hadn’t played as much together this year. In fact, Mahut arrived in Rome fresh off a runner-up appearance in Madrid with another countryman, Edouard Roger-Vasselin.

But it was not that hard to pick up where Herbert and Mahut left off. The No. 4 seeds defeated Ivan Dodig and Marcel Granollers for their first title of the season. The Frenchmen were in survival mode all tournament long, squeezing past match tiebreaks in every round, including in the semifinals against Bob and Mike Bryan.

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Dodig and Granollers, a new team this year, had an easier path to the finals, which included a straight-sets win over top-seeded Henri Kontinen and John Peers in the semifinals.

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In the end, though, Herbert and Mahut were too strong, and will be entering their home Slam, the French Open, with momentum on their side.

PARENTAL PEERS

Plenty of players on the pro right now are balancing parenthood with their life as a full-time touring athlete. You can count Peers among those ranks now. The Australian announced the birth of his first child last week.

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HEADS UP! (OR MAYBE DOWN?)

In their quarterfinal match against the Bryans in Rome, Rajeev Ram and Raven Klaasen were working themselves into a rather dynamic point that came to a surprise end when Klaasen’s cross-court forehand just missed the mark.

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A LOOK AHEAD

It’s the final week of tournaments before the biggest clay-court event of them all, the French Open. Plenty of top teams are in action on both tours. In Geneva, Switzerland, top seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau are still seeking their first title on the dirt this year. Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah, the second seeds, will be going for their third clay title in 2017.

Rome finalists Dodig and Granollers are the top seeds in Lyon, France, followed by all-time great Daniel Nestor and Fabrice Martin.

At the WTA stop in Strasbourg, France, the top seeds are the sister act of Yung-Jan Chan (one half of the Hingis/Chan dream team) and Hao-Ching Chan. Miami champions Gabriela Dabrowski and Yifan Xu are the second seeds.

In Nurnberg, Germany, Sania Mirza—trying to reach her first clay-court final of the year—and Yaroslava Shvedova lead the field. The second-seeded team of Andreja Kelpac and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez is already through to the quarters.