The road to the final for Reyes Varela and Stalder began with a win in the opening round over Masamichi Imamura and Naoki Tajima, 4:6, 6:1, 10:6, and in the quarterfinals the pair defeated Alexander Müller and Luka Pavlovic.
In their head-to-head, the Lammons / Withrow pair led 2:0: both previous meetings, in Morelia and Mexico City, went their way.