Paes-Bhupathi win
Atlanta doubles

Fourth seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes of India defeated top seeds Rick Leach (USA) and David MacPherson (Australia) 6-3, 7-6 (7) in the doubles finals of the Verizon Tennis Challenge in Atlanta on Sunday.

Leach had won the doubles title at Barcelona last year (with E Ferreira) and MacPherson in 1992 (with DeVries).

Bhupathi and Paes played at Barcelona for the first time and won their first title of the season.

It will be the 17th ATP title of their career (above the Challenger level). The Indians won this title without dropping a set for the whole week. The win gives them 175 ATP entry points and their team ranking will now move inside the top-15 and will share $26,650 as prize money. The win also makes their record in ATP finals 17-7, 15-2 in tournaments below the Grand Slam and World Doubles Championships level.

Meanwhile, Andy Roddick defeated Xavier Malisse in the singles final to win his first ATP title.

The American defeated the unseeded Belgian 6-2, 6-4.

With 18-year-old Roddick and 20-year-old Malisse, it was the youngest ATP singles final this season and the youngest title match in the tournament's ATP history since 1992.

Roddick is the first American teenager to capture an ATP title since Michael Chang won in San Francisco on February 9, 1992, aged 19 years and 11 months. This year, Roddick won the doubles titles at Delray Beach (with Gambill) and the Bermuda Challenger (with Goldstein).

Roddick entered the final after taking Raemon Sluiter, second seed Todd Martin, Fernando Meligeni and 1999 champion Stefan Koubek in the previous rounds.

Malisse defeated Andre Sa, fourth seed Rainer Schuettler, fifth seed and defending champion Andrew Ilie and Jerome Golmard on the way to his first ATP final.