Sa has reached 30 doubles finals in his career, winning 11 of them, and played Davis Cup from 1997 to 2009.
A LOOK AHEAD
It’s a reversal of sorts for the pros as the women compete in their annual team event, Fed Cup, while the men are back to tournament action. At the Open Sud de France in Montpellier, the top seeds are Ivan Dodig—fresh off his Davis Cup heroics—and Rajeev Ram. They’re followed in the draw by Marcus Daniell and Dominic Inglot. Both teams have tough openers against Wesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak and Ken and Neal Skupski, respectively.
At the Ecuador Open, the year’s first event on clay, Marcelo Demoliner and Purav Raja are the top seeds, while Treat Huey and Philipp Oswald are in the two spot. Sa is teaming up with countryman Thomaz Bellucci in one of his final events. The final tournament on the calendar this week, the Sofia Open in Bulgaria, sees the veterans Marcin Matkowski and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi atop the draw sheet, with Nikola Mektic and Alexander Peya seeded second.
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