Indian doubles star Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan have clinched their second ATP doubles title of the season at the 2011 Stockholm Open on Sunday.

Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi has clinched 2011 Stockholm Open tournament on Sunday, after beating Brazil pair Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares in the final in straight sets with a 6-1 and 6-3. The Indo-Pak pair has clinched third doubles ATP title at Stockholm, after winning 2011 Gerry Weber Open in Halle and Johannesburg Open in 2010. The top seed Bopanna and Qureshi has won the championship final in just 57 minutes and bagged €29,400 prize money and taken 250 ranking points each.

The 31-year-old Rohan Bopanna also won ATP doubles title in 2008 along with the Eric Butorac of Untied States at Los Angeles. The Indo-Pak pair will play next tournament at the Bank Austria Tennis event, played on Indoor hard courts schedule to begin on 25th October. Bopanna and Qureshi will battle against their Stockholm Open finalist Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares in the opening round of Bank Austria Tennis tournament on Wednesday in Austria.

Bopanna and Qureshi are playing outstanding tennis in the doubles matches, where the pair also reached the semi finals of the 2011 US Open tournament, before falling to Poland pair Fyrstenberg and Matkowski in straight sets.

source: http://www.livetennisguide.com / filded under Tennis News by Terry Lawrence / Monday, October 24th, 2011