Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul clinched their first ATP Tour title in thrilling vogue Tuesday, after they defeated Francisco Cabral and Rafael Matos 4-6, 7-5, 10-7 on the Chengdu Open.
French duo Doumbia and Reboul reeled off 5 consecutive factors from 5/7 within the Match Tie-break to safe victory in one-hour, 52-minutes in China’s Sichuan province. The highest seeds saved 5 of the six break factors they confronted so as to add a tour-level crown to the 15 ATP Challenger Tour titles they’ve received collectively since 2019.
The 33-year-old Doumbia and 28-year-old Reboul reached three tour-level semi-finals in 2022 and got here near turning into champions at that stage for the primary time in February, after they reached the championship match in Cordoba. After lastly tasting title success by dropping simply two units all week in Chengdu, the French pair improved to 23-17 for the 2023 season.
At present seventeenth within the Pepperstone ATP Reside Doubles Groups Rankings, Doumbia and Reboul will subsequent head to Kazakhstan to compete on the Astana Open. They’ll hope one other deep run at an ATP 250 can preserve their momentum as they eye a late qualification cost for the season-ending Nitto ATP Finals.
