Chennai: The Indian duo of defending champions Ramkumar Ramanathan and Saketh Myneni finished as runners-up in the doubles event of the Chennai Open ATP Challenger Tennis championship here on Saturday evening.
In the final, the third seeded Indian pair went down to Japan’s Shintaro Mochizuki and Kaito Uesugi 6-4, 6-4 in straight sets.
The unseeded Japanese duo broke the serve of the Indians once in each set to win in an
hour and seven minutes.
This was the second ATP Challenger doubles title for Uesugi and for Mochizuki, who won
the Wimbledon Boys singles title in 2019.
In the singles semifinals, unseeded Swede Elias Ymer stunned top seed Billy Harris, of Great Britain, in two hard-fought tiebreaks in their first clash on the pro circuit to enter the summit clash.
In a match that featured no breaks of serve and lasted over two-and-a-half hours, 28-year-old Ymer fired 10 aces and saved seven break points to win 7-6, 7-6 and advance to Sunday’s final.
His opponent will be Frenchman Kyrian Jacquet, who ousted Czech Dalibor Svrcina 6-4, 6-1 in the first semi-final of the day.
This was also the first meeting on the pro tour between the two players. Ymer will be gunning for his seventh ATP Challenger singles title, his first since winning in Pune in November 2018, while 23-year-old Jacquet will be hoping to win his second title on the ATP Challenger
Results :
Singles :
Semifinals :
Elias Ymer (SWE) bt Billy Harris (GBR) 7-6, 7-6,
Kyrian Jacquet (FRA) bt Dalibor Svrcina (CZE) 6-4, 6-1.
Final :
Doubles :
Shintaro Mochizuki (JPN) / Kaito Uesugi (JPN) bt Saketh Myneni (IND) / Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) 6-4, 6-4.
