Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan-Vijay Sundar Prashanth win Maha Open doubles title

India’s Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Vijay Sundar Prashanth won the doubles title at the Maha Open 2025 tennis tournament in Pune on Saturday.

The all-Indian tennis pair, top seeds at the ATP Challenger 100 event, beat the second-seeded Australian pair of Blake Bayldon and Matthew Christopher Romios 3-6, 6-3, 10-0 to emerge as the doubles champions. It was the first title together for the Indian tennis players.

On Friday, Nedunchezhiyan and Prashanth saw off the team of compatriot Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha and Courtney John Lock of Zimbabwe by a 7-6(5), 6-3 scoreline in the semi-finals.

In the singles finals on Sunday, the sixth-seeded Brandon Holt of the USA will take on unseeded Dalibor Svrcina of Czechia.

Earlier in the day, Brandon Holt got past eighth-seeded Alexis Galarneau of Canada 7-5, 6-4 in the semi-final.

Holt led 5-0 in the first set before the wily Canadian Galarneau came back to level scores at 5-5. However, Holt closed out the set by winning the next two games.

The 22-year-old Dalibor Svrcina, a regular in the Indian Futures circuit, made it to his first ATP Challenger final, getting past Khumoyun Sultanov of Uzbekistan with a 6(6)-7(8), 6-0, 3-1(retd) scoreline.

The match which looked to go the distance had to be stopped as Khumoyun retired after complaining of breathlessness and fatigue due to heat.

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