Wayne Black and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe have booked their place in the season-ending Masters Cup Doubles tournament in Zimbabwe.
Black and Ullyett won the Nasdaq-100 Open and ATP Masters Series in Hamburg and have made the quarterfinals of all four Grand Slams in 2004.
”We had a little taste last year when we were the alternate team, so it will be great to be playing this time around,” said Ullyet.
”We didn’t start the year too well but we upped our workload with our coach Miles MacLagan and things have paid off quite quickly.
”The key for us has been our performance at the big ones. Previously our record at the Masters Series events had been poor but we’ve won two titles from three finals. And we made the quarterfinals of all the Grand Slams; it was disappointing not to go a little further at the Slams, but we were consistent.”
Black and Ullyett are the fourth team to qualify for Houston.
Defending champions Mike and Bob Bryan, current world number one pair Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor and three-time reigning Wimbledon champions Jonas Bjorkman and Todd Woodbridge were the first to clinch spots in the eight-team field. – Sapa