Doubles
Krawietz/Puetz win Shanghai, snap 33-year anticipate German M1000-winning pair
Reigning Nitto ATP Finals titlists down Goransson/Michelsen in China
October 12, 2025
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Tim Puetz and Kevin Krawietz earn a straight-sets win Sunday to clinch the Shanghai title.
By Andy West
Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz etched their names onto an unique record in German tennis historical past on Sunday on the Rolex Shanghai Masters.
With their 6-4, 6-4 championship-match victory in opposition to Andre Goransson and Alex Michelsen in China, Krawietz and Puetz turned simply the second all-German duo to win a doubles title in ATP Masters 1000 sequence historical past (since 1990). The gamers they’ve joined on that record? A pair of illustrious singles stars in former No. 1 within the PIF ATP Rankings Boris Becker and former World No. 2 Michael Stich, who received the 1992 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters doubles crown collectively.
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Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz defeat Goransson/Michelsen 6-4 6-4 to seize their maiden ATP Masters 1000 crown as an all-German group.@SH_RolexMasters | #RolexShanghaiMasters pic.twitter.com/umnG6NsRxt
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“Let’s not put us in any means in the identical class as these two,” stated the 37-year-old Puetz after lifting his second Masters 1000 crown (he additionally received the Rolex Paris Masters in 2021 alongside New Zealander Michael Venus. “[My first Masters 1000 title] was very particular. Really, Michael Stich despatched me a textual content message after the primary one. I did not know him in any respect, and it was very, very good of him. He despatched me a very nice message after I received in Paris.
“It is not nicer with Kevin, but it surely’s positively completely different successful it with a countryman… We’re really genuinely pals, additionally with our groups. We go see one another, even when we do not have tournaments. So it’s extremely, very good to share that. Clearly, victories are good, but additionally to share in defeats. I believe all in all we’re simply proud of this section of our careers and our lives to be collectively in these moments.”
Krawietz and Puetz transformed three of eight break factors they earned in Sunday’s last, based on Infosys ATP Stats. They let slip a 3-1 lead within the second set however instantly notched a second, decisive break of the set within the seventh recreation en path to an 83-minute victory.
Having marched to the Shanghai title for the lack of only one set, Krawietz and Puetz have risen one spot to sixth within the PIF ATP Dwell Doubles Groups Rankings. They’re properly positioned to qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals, the place they lifted the trophy final 12 months.
“We obtained to the semi-finals, after which after the semi-final I used to be in fact pleased to be within the last,” mirrored the 33-year-old Krawietz on his Shanghai run with Puetz. “After all, you wish to win the ultimate. Right here and there some tight moments, in fact, so I had to determine the best way to deal with it.
“Ultimately it went the appropriate means, so very pleased, very proud. Let’s benefit from the second now.”
