India’s young doubles pair, Shlok Ramachandran and MR Arjun lifted their second title in the space of week after winning the Abu Dhabi Apex Elite Championship with a straight-game victory in the final on Sunday, reported PTI.
The Shlok-Arjun duo had previously lifted the Iran Fajr International title in Tehran last Sunday. In the summit event, the young Indians downed Denmark’s Rasmus Faldberg and Christian Lind Thomsen 23-21, 21-18.
Shlok and Arjun, ranked 54th in the world, had beaten Indonesia’s Angger Sudrajad and Afiat Wirawan in the quarter-final. They got the better of another Indonesian pair, Rafiddias Nugroho and Rian Syaoqi to reach the final. Shlok and Arjun had started the tournament with a defeat, losing to compatriots Nandagopal Kidambi and Rupesh Kumar in the group stages.
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