Paris 2024 Olympian N Sriram Balaji and his Austrian partner, Neil Oberleitner, won the men’s doubles title at the Nonthaburi Challenger II 2026 tennis tournament in Bangkok, Thailand, on Saturday.
Balaji and Donski, the top seeds at the ATP Challenger 75 tournament, defeated second seeds Anirudh Chandrasekar of India and Japan’s Takeru Yuzuki 6-3, 7(8)-6(6) in 89 minutes to clinch their maiden ATP Challenger tennis title as a team.
This was Balaji’s 14th ATP Challenger doubles title and first since April 2024, when he won the Sardegna Open in Italy alongside Andre Begemann of Germany.
At the Paris 2024 Olympics, Sriram Balaji teamed up with Rohan Bopanna but the Indian duo could not sail past the first round.
Balaji and Oberliatner set the tone early in the contest, striking a crucial break in the opening set to race to a 2-0 lead. That early incision gave them firm control of proceedings and they broke for a second time to move 5-1 ahead.
Chandrasekar and Yuzuki showed resilience, breaking back immediately to reduce the deficit to 5-2 but the top seeds closed out the opening set comfortably.
The second set was a far more even affair with neither side able to gain a decisive edge. The set inevitably headed into a tiebreak but the margins remained thin.
Locked at 6-6, the contest hung in the balance before Balaji and Oberliatner found an extra gear at the decisive moment, claiming two successive points to seal the tiebreak and the championship in straight sets.
In the semi-finals, the Indian tennis player and Oberliatner received a walkover after Thailand’s Maximus Jones and Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul pulled out ahead of the contest. Balaji and Oberliatner overcame unseeded opponents in their first two rounds.