The new partnership of Saketh Myneni and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan continues to impress! A month after making the final of the Shenzen Challenger, they grabbed the title at the $50, 000 TAC Cup China International Nanjing Challenger 2016 on Sunday.
In the summit clash, the third seeds overcame the unseeded Ukrainian-Kazakh duo of Denys Molchanov and Aleksandr Nedovyesov, 6-3, 6-3.
The left hand-right hand combination is working wonders as a team and they did not drop a set in all of their four matches this week. Their confidence and sharpness were evident from the way they dismantled the second seeds Yan Bai and Riccardo Ghedin in the semi-finals, 6-3, 6-2.
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For the Asian Games gold medallist Saketh, who is ranked within the top 150 in both singles and doubles, this is his sixth career Challenger title in doubles. For the 160th ranked Nedunchezhiyan, this is his second title at this level after triumphing at the Kolkata Challenger with Somdev Devvarman in 2015.
Heartbreak for Raja and Sharan
Meanwhile at the $50, 000 St Joseph’s/Candler Savannah Challenger in the USA, the all-Indian pair of Purav Raja and Divij Sharan lost a thrilling final to the American duo of Brian Baker and Ryan Harrison, 7-5, 6(4)-7, 8-10.
Purav and Divij had earlier shown superb fighting skills in the semi-finals to come back from a set and double break down to edge past the Ecuadorian-Venezuelan pair of Giovanni Lapentti and Roberto Maytin, 4-6, 7-6(3), 11-9.
