1st seeds Atharva Sharma (IND, 376) and Nikita Ianin (535) finished as doubles runners-up at the USD 30,000 ITF M25 Luanda 2 (Kikuxi Open) in Angola after falling to 2nd seeds Courtney John Lock (ZIM, 342) and Isaac Nortey (GHA, 1251) 6-2, 3-6, [5-10] in 1 hour and 7 minutes on Saturday.

Atharva Sharma (IND, 376) and Nikita Ianin (535) held all 4 of their service games to take Set 1 6-2 in 25 minutes and won 3 of 4 sudden-death 40-40 deciding points across the match before Lock and Nortey won 6 of the last 7 points from 4-4 in the 11-minute match tiebreak.

En route to Saturday's final, 1st seeds Atharva Sharma (IND, 376) and Nikita Ianin (535) held 16 of 18 service games without dropping a set, defeating Alexey Dubinin (1737) and Ruslan Serazhetdinov (1858) 6-1, 6-3 in 55 minutes and 4th seeds Nicolas Jadoun (FRA, 1315) and Louis Larue (FRA, 1447) 6-4, 6-4 in 1 hour and 4 minutes.

Competing during the week of his career-high doubles ranking of 376, Atharva Sharma (IND, 376) collects 16 doubles ranking points from the outdoor hard courts of Academia de Tenis Kikuxi after holding 22 of 26 service games (84.6%) and winning 9 of 13 deciding points (69.2%) across the week.