Chennai, June 8: Sriram Balaji won double crown at the B.R. Adityan GNC ITF Mens Futures Tennis Championships here tonight beating Jeevan Neduncheziyan to clinch singles crown and later partnered him to down Arun Prakash and Keith Patrick Crowley to win the men’s doubles title as well.Balaji beat Jeevan 6-7(6) 6-4 6-0 in the men’s singles while they came bacl together later to beat R Arun Prakash and South African Keith Patrick Crowley 6-2 6-7(6) 10-5.Sriram and Jeevan, both of whom train at the Schuttler Waske Tennis University in Germany, knew each other’s game and started confidently.Both served powerfully and held their respective serve till scores were 3-3 all. Jeevan then broke Sriram conceding only one point. In the next game, Jeevan’s serve cracked and was broken at love. (PTI)
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