Nicolas barrientos

Arjun Kadhe: Maharashtra tennis player Arjun Kadhe and Rithvik Bollipalli of Telangana won their maiden title on the ATP Tour, producing a stunning comeback to win the men’s doubles title at the Almaty Open 2024 ATP 250 tennis tournament at Almaty in Kazakhstan on Sunday.

The Pune-based Kadhe and Bollipalli defeated Colombia’s Nicolas Barrientos and Tunisia’s Skander Mansouri 3-6, 7-6(3), 14-12 in a super tiebreaker to win the title, their first on the ATP Tour, both as individuals and as a team. The first-time Indian combine, who had won a Challenger title in Olbia (Italy), last year, reached their first ATP Tour final as a team after beating the German team of Jakob Schnaitter and Mark Wallner 7-6(6), 6-3 in the semifinals, according to information reaching here on Sunday.

Earlier in the event, Kadhe and Bollipalli had defeated Italy’s Marco Bortolotti and Finland’s Patrik Niklas-Salminen in the opening round before stunning France’s Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul, the second seeds, in the quarters.