Jeevan and Vijay Triumphs at the 2024 Hangzhou Open Tennis

Jeevan and Vijay's Breakthrough Victory

• Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Vijay Sundar Prashanth won their first ATP Tour title as a pair at the 2024 Hangzhou Open.
• They defeated Germany's Constantin Frantzen and Hendrik Jebens in the final with a score of 4-6, 7(7)-6(5), 10-7.
• The match lasted one hour and 49 minutes at the Hangzhou Olympics Sports Centre.
• This victory marked Jeevan's second ATP title and Vijay's first.
• The Indian duo started playing together at the beginning of the 2024 season.

Path to Victory

• All of Jeevan and Vijay's wins at the tournament came through super tiebreakers.
• They began by defeating Australians Blake Bayldon and Thomas Fancutt (7-6, 4-6, 10-7).
• In the quarter-finals, they overcame second-seeded British pair Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool (6-7, 7-6, 10-8).
• The semi-finals saw them beat third-seeded Uruguay-USA pair Ariel Behar and Robert Galloway (0-6, 6-2, 10-4).
• In the final, they came back from losing the first set to clinch the title in a super tiebreaker.

Hangzhou Open 2024 Highlights

• The tournament took place from September 18-24, 2024, in Hangzhou, China.
• It was an ATP 250 event played on hardcourt with a prize pool of $1,000,630.
• In the men's singles, former US Open champion Marin Cilic of Croatia won the title.
• Cilic, ranked 777th at the start of the tournament, became the lowest-ranked player ever to win an ATP event.
• He defeated local Chinese player Zhang Zhizhen in the final, 7-6(5), 7-6(5).