{"id":71159,"date":"2026-05-24T07:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/71159\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:09:10","slug":"bhambri-and-venus-edged-out-in-match-tie-break-to-end-geneva-open-campaign-as-runners-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/71159\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhambri and Venus edged out in match tie-break to end Geneva Open campaign as runners-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;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<p>The third-seeded Indo-Kiwi pair lost 6-3, 6-7(7), 7-10 to Romain Arneodo of Monaco and Australia&#8217;s Marc Polmans in a closely-contested summit clash that lasted nearly two hours.<\/p>\n<p><a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/sports-news\/yuki-bhambri-and-michael-venus-fall-in-nail-biting-miami-open-first-round\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bhambri <\/a>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<p>Arneodo and Polmans raised their level in the decider, gaining an early advantage and maintaining composure in crucial exchanges to seal the title. Agencies<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:   <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/sports-news\/yuki-bhambri-and-michael-venus-fall-in-nail-biting-miami-open-first-round\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yuki Bhambri and Michael Venus Fall in Nail-Biting Miami Open First Round<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s Yuki Bhambri and his New Zealand partner Michael Venus finished runners-up at the Geneva Open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[65,36073,37805,37802],"class_list":["post-71159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-geneva","tag-geneva-open","tag-michael-venus","tag-yuki-bhambri"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116628302284367050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71159","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=71159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}