ISLAMABAD – Pakistani tennis player Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and his Britishpartner Dominic Inglot won the final of New York open on Sunday with7-6(5), 7-6(6) over Steve Johnson/Reilly Opelka.
Inglot said, ”They put up an absolute fight and it’s never over until it’sover. We were panicking when they kept breaking us, so pulling this outmeans a lot,”
“Aisam and I had a tough week losing in the finals last week, so I’m gladwe were able to make it one step further here.”
Johnson dropped to 1-2 in tour-level doubles finals. The American duo wasplaying as a team for just the second time, they lost in the opening roundlast year at this event.
Johnson said, ”Reilly let me down. My back is still hurting from trying tocarry you,” “This was a fun week and I always enjoy coming back here.”
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Sources revealed that Aisam-ul-Haq ranked 56th and Inglot ranked 65th. Theyboth defeated American pair of Nicholas Monroe and Jack Sock in thesemifinal 4-6, 7-6(3), 10-3.
The team has also defeated American tennis player John Isner and Tommy Paulin the first round.
Aisam and Inglot also on against Roman Jebavy from the Czech Republic andFrederik Neilson from Denmark 4-6, 6-1, 10-5 in the quarter-finals.
