11 Jan 2014

Knowle and Melo take out Open doubles

4:24 pm on 11 January 2014

The second seeds Julian Knowle of Austria and Brazilian partner Marcelo Melo have won the doubles tennis title at Auckland's Heineken Open.

The pair clinched their first title together with a match tiebreak, coming back to beat another Austrian-Brazilian combination, the top seeds Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares, 4-6 6-3 10-5 in the final.

The victory over the former Heineken Open champions Peya and Soares is Knowle's 17th ATP doubles title and first with Melo, who's now won 13.