Chennai, Feb. 8 -- The Indian duo of defending champions Ramkumar Ramanathan and Saketh Myneni finished as runners-up in the doubles event of the Chennai Open ATP Challenger Tennis championship here on Saturday evening.

In the final, the third seeded Indian pair went down to Japan's Shintaro Mochizuki and Kaito Uesugi 6-4, 6-4 in straight sets.

The unseeded Japanese duo broke the serve of the Indians once in each set to win in an hour and seven minutes.

This was the second ATP Challenger doubles title for Uesugi and for Mochizuki, who won the Wimbledon Boys singles title in 2019.

In the singles semifinals, unseeded Swede Elias Ymer stunned top seed Billy Harris, of Great Britain, in two hard-fought tiebreaks in their first clash o...