Ram takes home his second dubs title of the season in dramatic fashion!
Towpath's one day event, in which a round-robin, one set format would see a new champion wasn't without the requisite 3.0 drama in a tournament full of 3.0 tournament newbies!
That being said, a 20204 newbie but a rising 3.0 star, Ram, who had just won the NTRP 18+ Championships the week before, looked to headline this cast of trophy-chasing 3.0ers, but not with two-time 2024 winner Kishore but instead a new partner in 3.0 crime, Sumit!
And indeed, the headline team of Ram and Sumit started off strong, getting two early wins with dropping nary a game! The key match early on, though, taking place in Round 3, was Ashish and Sanket taking on Hasan and Dilshod in the second closest match of the event, a 7-5 barnburner with the former emerging victorious!
That didn't mean the latter were done, and despite their newbie status, they played like long-time 3.0 vets as they took on the undefeated Ram and Sumit in Round 4! The closest match of the whole event saw these two titans of the 3.0 court going mano y mano (a classic tennis term) that could only be ended in a SUPER TIEBREAKER! In such a tense event, experience very much comes into play, and the experience of Ram proved to be the difference as the pairing emerged from Round 4 with a 7-6(8-6) victory to remain undefeated!
Ashish and Sanket, taking down a valiant Jeff and Diego, were also undefeated, meaning Round 5 was in fact the championship final!
WOW!
In another back-and-forth match, the veteran leadership of Ram went tit-for-3.0-tat versus the rookie exuberance of Ashish and Sanket and once again, it was the veteran tournament championship winning experience of Ram "Tom Brady" Medapati that proved the deciding factor, and for the second time in a month, Ram was a doubles champion!
Congrats Ram on joining an elite crew, a Towpath championship crew!
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