Yuki Bhambri wins maiden ATP Tour tennis title in Mallorca

Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri clinched his first ATP Tour title after winning the Mallorca Open 2023 men’s doubles final in Spain on Saturday.

Yuki Bhambri, partnering South Africa’s Lloyd Harris, registered a comfortable 6-3, 6-4 win over the Dutch-Austrian pair of Robin Haase and Philipp Oswald to bag the ATP Tour crown.

The Yuki Bhambri-Lloyd Harris pair stunned France’s Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Mexico’s Santiago Gonzalez, the top seeds, 6-4, 7-6 in the semi-finals on Friday. Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Santiago Gonzalez won the Miami Open ATP Masters 1000 title in April this year.

Earlier, Yuki Bhambri and Lloyd Harris defeated the Austrian team of Alexander Erler and Lucas Miedler in their opening match of the ATP 250 tournament before ousting the Spanish-Argentine pair of Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos, seeded fourth, in the quarter-finals.

The Indo-South African duo didn’t drop a single set en route to the title.

Courtesy the win, Yuki Bhambri, currently ranked 75th in the ATP doubles tennis rankings, is all set to jump up to a career-best 58th position in the standings.          

The 30-year-old Yuki Bhambri, who will turn 31 on Tuesday, took up doubles last year following an injury-marred singles career.

Yuki Bhambri has mostly partnered with compatriot Saketh Myneni in the men’s doubles. The duo won the Bangkok Open Challenger title back in January before claiming the Girona Challenger in Spain in April this year.

The Indian pair also competed at the Australian Open 2023 and won their first Grand Slam match at the French Open 2023, where they defeated the French pair of Arthur Rinderknech and Enzo Couacaud.

Yuki Bhambri is a former junior world No. 1 in singles.