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Tata Open Maharashtra Males’s Doubles winners Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen and runners up N Sriram Balaji, Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IANS)
The Indian pair went down combating within the summit conflict of the ATP 250 occasion to the Belgian pair of Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen in straight units 6-4,6-4
India’s N. Sriram Balaji and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan didn’t cap off their good run in theTata Open Maharashtra ATP Tour tennis occasion shedding to the all-Belgian pair of Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen in straight units within the males’s doubles closing on the Shiv Chhatrapati Sports activities Advanced.
Balaji and Jeevan, who had come into the principle draw as alternates after the late withdrawal of Laslo Djere and Alex Molcan of Slovakia, performed beautifully all through the week as they stormed into the lads’s doubles closing with out dropping a set.
However on Saturday, their magical run got here to an finish after they misplaced to the Belgians 6-4, 6-4 on the Centre Courtroom on the Balewadi Stadium right here. The Belgians earned an early break in each units which was sufficient for them to seal their sixth ATP Tour title as a workforce.
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The Belgian duo seeded fourth, had stormed into the ultimate by beating prime seeds and reigning U.S Open champions Rajeev Ram of america and Joe Salisbury of Nice Britain within the semifinals on Friday evening.
The Indian workforce had reached its first ATP Tour closing as a workforce after first teaming up on the 2007 India F7 and made their tour-level debut on the 2012 Chennai. Balaji and Jeevan had shocked No. 2 seed Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow earlier within the quarterfinals.
The Tamil Nadu-born duo has a 3-3 tour-level document as a workforce and wished to grow to be the second consecutive all-Indian workforce to win Pune after Rohan Bopanna/Ramkumar Ramanathan received in 2022.
Nonetheless, the Belgian mixture of Gille and Vliegen proved too sturdy for the Indians because it used its higher expertise of taking part in on the ATP Tour to nice impact.
Gille and Vliegen attacked Jeevan’s service within the third sport of the primary set and earned an early break. They then held their service to take a 3-1 lead. Video games went with serve and although Balaji and Jeevan tried lots, they may not get the break again because the Belgians received 6-4.
Within the second set, Gile and Vliegen broke Balaji’s serve within the third sport to take a 2-1 lead. They maintained their benefit until the top of the set to win 6-4, profitable the ultimate and the title in 70 minutes.
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