Tennis: Tecau and Rojer win doubles at ATP Valencia Open

Romanian Horia Tecau and Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer won the doubles competition of the ATP Valencia Open, defeating the pair Kevin Anderson (South Africa) / Jeremy Chardy (France) 6-4, 6-2 in the Sunday final.

Tecau and Rojer, the 4th seed pair in the tournament, won in one hour 45 minutes, and got 500 ATP points, which virtually qualifies them to the Champions Tournament in London. Before the Valencia Open, they were placed 6th in the 'Race to London', where the top eight pairs of the year qualify.

Valencia was the eighth title in 2014 for the Romanian-Dutch pair, after those in Zagreb, Casablanca, Bucharest, s-Hertogenbosch, Washington, Shenzhen and Beijing. They also lost one final, in Rotterdam.

Tecau's record is now of 24 ATP tours won in doubles — 8 with Rojer this year, three with Max Mirnyi, ten with Robert Lindstedt , and one with each Victor Hanescu, Dick Norman and Marcus Daniell. He also won a mixed doubles titles with Bethanie Mattek-Sands, the 2012 Australian Open. He lost 14 doubles finals, including one with Indian Sania Mirza, one of the winners of the women's doubles of the WTA Finals in Singapore on Sunday. AGERPRES