Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi a Pakistani tennis star wins first time doubles’ title of South African Open Tennis Tournament (SAOTT). Rohan Bopanna an Indian player was his partner in the doubles’ event matches, played in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Pakistan and Indian doubles’ couple battled with Czech Slovakia’s Carol Back and Herral Levi of Israel in the final counter of the tournament.
Rohan and Aisam lifted their first ATP tour title as a pair in their 3rd final appearence. This was Rohan’s 2nd ATP tour title and Aisam’s first. Rohan won first title with with Eric Butorac at Los Angeles 2008.
Rohan and Asiam started badly losing first 4 games and lost first set in 30 mins. In second set at 1-all match was suspended due to rain . That break turned out blessing for them as they came out firing all cylinders. They won second set breaking Beck and Levy in 6th game. In super tie-break they were down with mini-break at 0-2. But they got double mini-break on Beck and Levy’s serve to make it 3-2. They got another mini-break on 13th point after that Rohan served out for match winning 2 points on his serve to win match in 68 mins.
Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi -
“I think it’s a great achievement. As a team we are really, really good and we can be in the Top 10 definitely together. Today’s win definitely proves it because the chips were really down and we were able to find the solution to get back.”
This tremendous and remarkable show from Aisam ul Haq will get him better position in international ranking, experts said.
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