New Delhi: India's Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and his partner Vijay Sundar Prashanth clinched their maiden ATP title together, winning the Hangzhou Open men's doubles event, while Yuki Bhambri and his French partner Albano Olivetti finished runners-up at the Chengdu Open on Tuesday.
The unseeded Indian duo of Jeevan and Vijay scripted a remarkable comeback to defeat the unseeded German team of Constantin Frantzen and Hendrik Jebens 4-6, 7-6(5), 10-7 in one hour and 49 minutes.
For the 35-year-old Jeevan this was his second ATP Tour title, having won the Chennai Open with Rohan Bopanna way back in 2017.
This was Vijay's first-ever ATP Tour title.
After losing the first set 4-6, the Indians hold their nerve to force a tie-break in the second set, which they clinched 7-6 (5).
The match then headed into a super tie-break, where Jeevan and Vijay displayed poise under pressure, prevailing 10-7.
The Indians managed two aces against their opponents' eight and saved two of three break points they faced.
Jeevan and Vijay remained rock solid on the second-serve points, winning 74 per cent of them.
Yuki and Olivetti narrowly missed out on a third title this year, losing 4-6, 6-4, 4-10 to the top-seeded French pair Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul in a tense final.
Both pairs battle hard, with Bhambri and Olivetti winning the second set to push the encounter to a tie-break before falling short in the final moments in a match lasting more than one hour and 30 minutes.
Nagal fails to qualify
India's highest-ranked singles player Sumit Nagal lost to sixth-seeded Pavel Kotov of Russia in the opening match of the Beijing Open qualifying round.
Nagal, ranked 83rd in the world, lost 2-6, 6-7 to the world No. 63 Russian.