India’s Yuki Bhambri and his New Zealand partner Michael Venus finished runners-up at the Geneva Open after suffering a hard-fought defeat in the ATP 250 doubles final here on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The third-seeded Indo-Kiwi pair lost 6-3, 6-7(7), 7-10 to Romain Arneodo of Monaco and Australia’s Marc Polmans in a closely-contested summit clash that lasted nearly two hours.<\/p>\n
Bhambri and Venus, who were playing together in their first final of the 2026 season, took the opening set but the rivals forced a match tie-breaker after taking the second.<\/p>\n
Arneodo and Polmans raised their level in the decider, gaining an early advantage and maintaining composure in crucial exchanges to seal the title.<\/p>\n
Bhambri and Venus had entered the final with impressive momentum after defeating Czech pair Petr Rikl and Adam Pavlasek 7-5, 6-3 in the semifinals.<\/p>\n
For Bhambri, the Geneva campaign nevertheless marked an encouraging return to deep ATP Tour runs after a steady season on the doubles circuit.<\/p>\n
He has consistently remained among India’s top doubles performers in recent years and will now turn his focus to the upcoming French Open.<\/p>\n
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India’s Yuki Bhambri and his New Zealand partner Michael Venus finished runners-up at the Geneva Open after suffering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[37804,37777,1665,37806,36081,65,191,37809,37805,16069,14620,37808,37803,37801,37807,37802],"class_list":["post-70898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-adam-pavlasek-7-5","tag-atp-tour","tag-australia","tag-czech","tag-french-open","tag-geneva","tag-india","tag-marc-polmans","tag-michael-venus","tag-monaco","tag-new-zealand","tag-petr-rikl","tag-polmans","tag-romain-arneodo","tag-venus","tag-yuki-bhambri"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116624208984500872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}