BD NarayankarBengaluru, May 23 -- Finals in tennis don't ask for beauty first. They ask for nerve. And at the SM Krishna Memorial Open (ATP Challenger) in Bengaluru 2026, A Kalyanpur and Manish Sasikumar answered every question the hard way, coming from a set down to defeat P. Bar Biryukov and G. Lomakin 6-7(3), 6-4, 10-3 and lift the doubles crown on home soil.
If you walked in at the wrong moment, you might have thought the Indians were just slightly off. But finals don't work like that. They compress margins, magnify nerves, and turn every first serve into a small referendum on courage.
The opening set was exactly that. Tight, tense, no daylight. Both pairs holding serve, neither giving an inch. But when the tiebreak arrived, Bar Biryu...