Paes warms up with title win

Wednesday 28th June 2017 07:25 EDT
 
 

Indian tennis star Leander Paes warmed up for the Wimbledon championships by winning the Aegon Ilkley Challenger trophy with Canadian partner Adil Shamasdin, against Brydan Klien and Joe Salisbury, at Ilkley (Great Britain) on Saturday. Top seeded Paes and Shamasdin beat the local wild card pair 2-6, 6-2, 10-8 in the summit clash of the Euro 127,000 grass court event. Interestingly, both the teams broke each other twice and won 52 points each in the 66 minute match. It is third title of the season for Paes on the ATP Challenger Tour and second with Shamasdin. He had won the Tallahassee Challenger with American partner Scott Lipksy in April. His first title of the season had come in Leon, with Shamasdin in March.


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