Can Mahut/Herbert capture a French Open doubles title?

For a duo who has won multi-titles on many surfaces, capturing that French Open doubles title may not be as unbelievable as it might sound.

Frenchmen Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert are known more frequently to be a threat on the ATP tennis tour as a doubles pair.

Both play singles but Nicolas Mahut is the one half that is the spark that ignites this highly proficient team.

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Mahut is quite effective as a singles and doubles player. He is most notable for his 11-hour marathon play with the American tennis player John Isner in 2010 at Wimbledon.

His love for the game started at age 5 where he followed his desires on becoming a good player and had excellent junior results winning the Orange Bowl in 1999 and then Wimbledon Boys’ Singles in 2000, the year he turned pro.

Mahut’s ranking in 2014 was no. 37. His singles career consisted of defeating several top 20s ATP players such as Stan Wawrinka, Marin Cilic, Dominic Thiem, David Goffin and Roberto Bautista Agut. Mahut has won 4 singles and 18 doubles titles.

Pierre-Hugues Herbert knew that he always wanted to excel in tennis and started as most do in Juniors where he won the 2009 Wimbledon Boys’ doubles title. Then, the same year, he reached the 2009 US Open Boys’ singles semifinals, becoming a runner-up to Bernard Tomic in the Finals. In 2010 Herbert turned pro. A few years later he had risen up the rankings and qualified to be in the 2013 Paris Masters, defeating countryman Benoit Paire.

The next year he received a wildcard into the French Open and faced John Isner, losing in 3 difficult sets. By 2015, he was able to get in the main draw of Wimbledon beating Hyeon Chung in a grueling three-hour, five-set match.

Mahut and Herbert paired at the Australian Open but they lost to Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli. The victory came at the US Open when they won over Jamie Murray and John Peers, making history as the first all-French pair to win the men’s doubles title at the Open.

Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert started becoming rather prominent as one of the best doubles’ teams in the world. In 2016, they defended their title at the Aegon Championships and beat Chris Guccione and Andre Sa. They also won the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters defeating Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares, and won the BNP Paribas Indian Wells winnign over Jean-Julien Rojer/Horia Tecau. In the grand slam division Mahut/Herbert delighted in winning Wimbledon feeling good at combining their skills and talents to defeat Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin for the title.

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This year, the Mahut/Herbert team has won the Italian Open in three sets over Ivan Dodig and Marcel Granollers. Is it at all possible that they can land up in the Finals of the French Open this year? Most likely. They’re ranked the No. 4 in the World and they will be on their home turf so with those odds, anything is possible.

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