Pakistan’s Aisam-ul-Haq and Indian No.1 Rohan Bopanna won the doubles tennis title of ATP Challenger Hester Trophy in Manchester beating Dutch / Swedish pair of Jesse Huta Galung and Michael Ryderstedt 4-6, 6-3,10-5.

On their way to the final, they defeated the pair of Andrew Coelho & Adam Feeney of Australia in the semi final, Dominik Meffert & Simon Stadler of Germany in quarter final and Kenneth Skupski & Richard Bloomfied of England in the earlier round,said a message received to APP here on Monday.

“ Both Rohan & I have been looking for a regular doubles partner for quite some time. Recently we discussed this issue with each other and decided to try it out together on the circuit on a regular basis because we had played once together some years ago and had won a Challenger in Denver, USA”, said Aisam in the post match comments.

“We are both happy with the outcome of our combination and will be playing together more often in future”, he said.

Earlier in the Singles event of this championship Aisam lost to his Doubles partner Rohan Bopanna 4-6, 4-6.

Commenting on his defeat, Aisam said that due to the rain the match was shifted to indoor slow hard court from outside grass court.

“Apparently Rohan adjusted to this shift better than me. Otherwise on our previous all three encounters, I had won,”,said Aisam who has now proceeded to Nottingham to participate in the ATP Challenger Championship, which is the last event of the grass court circuit of the year.

SOURCE: PAKISTAN TIMES

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