Indo-Polish pair of Rohan Bopanna and Marcin Matkowski went down 6-4, 3-6, 3-10 to the Dutch-Romanian team of Jean-Julien Rojer, Horia Tecau in the men's doubles final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship on Saturday.
The sixth seeds and defending champions Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea lost the closely fought final 4-6, 6-7 (5) to the third seeded Dutch-Romanian combination of Jean-Julien Roger and Horia Tecau in one hour and 11 minutes.
The fourth-seeded Indo-Czech pair defeated the fifth-seeded team of Pakistan's Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi and Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer 6-1 6-7 (3) 6-4 in a match which lasted more than two and a half hours.
Divij Sharan and Yen-Hsun Lu beat experienced Israeli pair of Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlich before going down to fifth seeds Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer following a tremendous fight in the third round, last night.
Bopanna was playing his second match of the day, after having lost the men's doubles semifinals to top seeds Mike Bryan and Bob Bryan.
It was eighth ATP doubles title for Bopanna, who has been ignored for India's Davis Cup tie against Indonesia.
Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka slumped to a 6-4, 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 defeat to Robin Haase and Jean-Julien Rojer on Saturday as the Netherlands stayed alive in their Davis Cup World Cup play-off with Switzerland.
