Saturday, August 27, 2011

At $50K Astana-2 Challenger, Kazakhstan
Doubles Final
Karan Rastogi (IND) / Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (4) Harri Heliovaara (FIN)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR) 76(3) 26 10-8

In the first set both pairs didn't lose their service games and in tie-break our pair dominated to win it ... In the second set Karan lost his serve in 6th game and then Vishnu lost his service game while serving for staying in the set ... In Super tie-break our pair take early double mini-break to lead 4-1 and kept that advantage nto lead 8-3 ... While serving for the match at 9-4 Karan double faulted and on 2nd match point he hit smash outside the court ... On next Vishnu hit easy shot in the net ... But after wasting 4 match points our pair converted 5th with superb backhand lob by Karan in the right corner of the court.

This was Karan's first doubles challenger title from the first final, other hand this was Vishnu's also first doubles challenger title but from three finals ... This win will push Vishnu's doubles ranking in top-250 and Karan will re-enter into top-450.

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