Qureshi and Rojer beat Huey and Lipsky 6-3, 6-4. – Photo courtesy Gerry Weber Open

KARACHI: Aisam-ul-Haq of Pakistan and Jean-Julien Rojer defeated Conrad Huey of Philippines and Scott Lipsky  of the United States to clinch the Halle Open doubles trophy on Sunday.

Defending champion Qureshi and his Dutch partner Rojer breezed past the unseeded pair of Huey and Lipsky  6-4, 6-3 to lift their second trophy together.

Previously, the top seeds overcame Poland’s Lukasz Kubot and Russia’s Mikhail Youzhny 6-2, 6-4 in the semi-final.

Qureshi and Rojer won the Estoril Open before reaching the semi-finals of the French Open where they were knocked out by Mike and Bob Bryan.

The Pak-Dutch pair will now be playing in the UNICEF Open where they are the second seeds. Their first match will be against Colombian duo of Alejandro Falla and Santiago Giraldo.

Opinion

Editorial

Ties with Tehran
Updated 24 Apr, 2024

Ties with Tehran

Tomorrow, if ties between Washington and Beijing nosedive, and the US asks Pakistan to reconsider CPEC, will we comply?
Working together
24 Apr, 2024

Working together

PAKISTAN’S democracy seems adrift, and no one understands this better than our politicians. The system has gone...
Farmers’ anxiety
24 Apr, 2024

Farmers’ anxiety

WHEAT prices in Punjab have plummeted far below the minimum support price owing to a bumper harvest, reckless...
By-election trends
Updated 23 Apr, 2024

By-election trends

Unless the culture of violence and rigging is rooted out, the credibility of the electoral process in Pakistan will continue to remain under a cloud.
Privatising PIA
23 Apr, 2024

Privatising PIA

FINANCE Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb’s reaffirmation that the process of disinvestment of the loss-making national...
Suffering in captivity
23 Apr, 2024

Suffering in captivity

YET another animal — a lioness — is critically ill at the Karachi Zoo. The feline, emaciated and barely able to...