Overview
- Bhambri and Michael Venus reached the Geneva Open men's doubles final after a straight‑set semifinal win over Petr Rikl and Adam Pavlasek that finished 7-5, 6-3 in one hour and 12 minutes.
- The Indo‑Kiwi pair, seeded third, finished runners‑up on Saturday when Romain Arneodo and Marc Polmans beat them 6-3, 6-7(7), 7-10 in a final decided by a match tie-break that lasted nearly two hours.
- Bhambri and Venus took the opening set in the final but lost the second set in a tiebreak and were overrun in the early exchanges of the 10‑point decider, where Arneodo and Polmans built an advantage they kept to seal the title.
- The Geneva run marked Yuki Bhambri’s first ATP final of the 2026 season and underlined a return to deeper Tour results for him, while Michael Venus added another high‑level match on clay to his season.
- The Geneva Open is an ATP 250 clay lead‑up event and the pair’s performance supplies ranking points and sharp match practice ahead of Roland Garros, with the match tie‑break format used at many doubles events determining the outcome.