Australian Blake Ellis and Japan’s Suichi Sekiguchi clinch doubles title of Uttar Pradesh Open ITF $25K Men’s International Tournament

Khel Today Bureau 

Lucknow: Doubles pair of Australian Blake Ellis and Japanese Suichi Sekiguchi clinched the Men’s doubles title of the Uttar Pradesh Open ITF $25K Men’s International Tournament.They defeated Indian pair of Parikshit Somani and Manish Sureshkumar 6-2,6-7,10-8.

Indians put up a tough fight in the second set and were leading 4-2 but the foreign pair volleyed well to level the score. However, the Indian pair stood their ground and with few good passes, took the second set. Ellis and Sekiguchi took advantage of the Unforced errors from the Indian pair and sailed through in the final super tie break.