By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday October 20, 2021
After claiming their first Masters 1000 title at Indian Wells on Saturday, Ivan Dodig and Filip Polasek can celebrate by knowing that they’ll be making a return trip to the Nitto ATP Finals in November.
The tandem officially qualified this week thanks to the fact that Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert qualified via points. That means that Polasek and Dodig gain entry per the Grand Slam winner rule.
This year’s Australian Open champions are the fifth team to qualify for Turin, joining Mahut and Herbert, as well as Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic, Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury and Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos.
Dodig will make his seventh appearance at the ATP Finals, while Polasek will make his second.