Tennis Roundup: Jeevan, Vijay win maiden title

Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and 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.

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.

This was the second ATP Tour title for the 35-year-old Jeevan, having won the Chennai Open with Rohan Bopanna way back in 2017.

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.

India’s highest-ranked singles player Sumit Nagal lost to sixth-seeded Pavel Kotov in his opening qualifying match of the Beijing Open. Nagal, ranked 83rd in the world, lost 2-6 6-7 to the world No. 63 Russian in a match that lasted one hour 52 minutes.