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India’s Yuki Bhambri and American partner Ryan Seggerman won the men’s doubles title at the Almaty Open on Sunday, October 25, 2026, defeating top-seeded Austrians Lucas Miedler and Neil Oberleitner in a three-set final. The fourth-seeded Indo-American pair prevailed 7-6(3), 6-7(1), [10-2] at the ATP 250 event in Almaty, Kazakhstan, giving Bhambri his first ATP Tour title of the season and the fifth doubles championship of his career on the tour.
The opening set was closely fought, with neither team able to create enough separation to avoid a tiebreak. Bhambri and Seggerman held their nerve in the breaker, taking it 7-3 to move within a set of the trophy.
Miedler and Oberleitner responded in the second set. The Austrian top seeds dominated its tiebreak 7-1 to level the match and force a deciding match tiebreak, putting the title on the line in a short, high-pressure finish.
Bhambri and Seggerman then took control of the deciding breaker, winning it 10-2. The tournament’s official report said the match lasted one hour and 26 minutes. The pair recorded six aces and one double fault, while the Austrian combination finished with three aces and one double fault.
The Almaty result adds to Bhambri’s previous ATP Tour doubles titles in Mallorca in 2023, Gstaad and Munich in 2024, and Dubai in 2025. It also gives him a championship to show for the 2026 season after a runner-up finish at the Geneva Open with New Zealand’s Michael Venus earlier in the year, according to reports published after the Almaty final.
Bhambri has continued to build his career around doubles, where results depend on coordinated serving, return positioning and rapid decision-making at the net. In Almaty, the ability to reset after losing the second-set tiebreak proved decisive: the pair won the match tiebreak by an eight-point margin.
Bhambri’s title is another ATP Tour doubles result for India’s experienced players on the international circuit. The win came against the tournament’s top seeds, making it a strong closing performance for the fourth-seeded partnership. It also underlines the value of partnerships across nationalities on the professional doubles tour, with Bhambri and Seggerman combining their games throughout the week.
The tournament’s official account confirmed the result, while independent reports from Indian media also identified it as Bhambri’s fifth career ATP Tour doubles title and first of the 2026 season. The match score and tiebreak sequence are consistent across the available reports.
- Final score: 7-6(3), 6-7(1), [10-2].
- Match duration: one hour and 26 minutes.
- Aces: Bhambri-Seggerman 6, Miedler-Oberleitner 3.
- Double faults: one for each team.
- ATP Tour doubles titles for Bhambri after Almaty: five.
- Previous title seasons listed in reports: 2023, 2024 and 2025.
For Indian tennis followers, the Almaty title offers a timely positive result in doubles. Bhambri and Seggerman had to withstand a second-set comeback before producing their clearest stretch of tennis in the deciding breaker, converting a tight final into a convincing finish.
