Instant Chemistry For Marach/Martin in Chennai

Oliver Marach and Fabrice Martin defeated Austin Krajicek and Benoit Paire 6-3, 7-5 in the Aircel Chennai Open doubles final to claim their first ATP World Tour doubles title as a team. The third seeds will share 250 Emirates ATP Doubles Rankings points and $23,000 while the unseeded finalists received 150 points and $12,090.

The Austrian and Frenchman partnered up at the beginning of the week and survived Match Tie-breaks in their first three outings before winning the final in straight sets.

“Our main goal this week was to fight for every point, even if we were down,” said Marach, whose team rallied from a set’s deficit in all three matches en route to the final. “We returned well and used the momentum in our favour.”

Marach improved to 14-15 in final appearances and claimed his first title since 2014 Vina del Mar (W/ Mergea), while Martin is now 1-1 after losing in the 2015 Zagreb final alongside Purav Raja.

 “I will be playing in Melbourne with Oliver, we’ll see how it goes,” Martin said. “I lost in the final of Zagreb and made a few semi-finals, so I am very happy to win finally.”