Mumbai: Watching Pranav Chopra and Akshay Dewalkar dismantle the top seeded duo of Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas was, in many ways akin to watching a pair of young musicians at work, taking their chances, giving each other the beat, picking up their cues and tempering the chords with a flick here and a smash there in a bid to create the perfect harmony. And the music did flow.
The NSCI court found itself swinging between pin-drop silence and thunderous applause as the men's doubles final underwent on Sunday and ended in the 19-21, 21-17, 23-21 defeat of the old monarchs in a nerve-wracking contest.
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