Rithvik Bollipalli-Nicolas Barrientos win doubles title

India’s Rithvik Bollipalli and his Colombian partner Nicolas Barrientos upset the top seeds Andres Molteni and Maximo Gonzalez to win the men’s doubles title at the Chile Open 2025 tennis tournament in Santiago on Saturday.

Bollipalli and Barrientos, unseeded in the ATP 250 tournament, toppled Argentina’s Andres Molteni and Maximo Gonzalez by a 6-3, 6-2 scoreline to clinch their maiden ATP Tour title as a team. Barrientos and Bollipalli first partnered in Dallas last month.

This was the second ATP Tour title for the Indian tennis player who previously won the Almaty Open with Arjun Kadhe last year.

The title clash on the hard courts saw both pairs hold serve through six games before Bollipalli and Barrientos took control, breaking their Argentine opponents twice to wrap up the first set.

Riding on the momentum, the Indo-Colombian pair broke their opponents in the first and the third games of the second set and went on to secure the match in one hour and three minutes.

Bollipalli and Barrientos fired 11 aces and dominated on serve, winning 87 percent (26/30) of first-serve points. They did not allow their opponents a single break point opportunity.

In the Chile Open semi-finals, Barrientos and Bollipalli edged out third seeds and recent Buenos Aires champions Guido Andreozzi and Theo Arribage with a 4-6, 7(9)-6(7), 10-5 scoreline.

The Indian-Colombian pair had beaten Brazil’s Marcelo Demoliner and Marcelo Zormann 3-6, 7(7)-6(2), 10-8 in the quarter-finals before getting the better of Poland’s Karol Drzewiecki and Piotr Matuszewski with a 7(7)-6(5), 7(9)-6(7) scoreline in the round of 16.

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