Paris [France], May 31 (ANI): The French Open 2023 males’s doubles competitors, which was happening on the Roland Garros Stadium in Paris on Wednesday, noticed Indian tennis veteran Rohan Bopanna and his Australian companion Matthew Ebden lose within the opening spherical.
The sixth-seeded Indo-Australian workforce was eradicated after falling to Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul of France 7-5, 7(7)-6(5) in a single hour and 39 minutes, as per Olympics.com.
In the ATP doubles rankings, Rohan Bopanna, who not too long ago rose to No. 9, and Matthew Ebden, who’s ranked No. 17, obtained off to a quick begin towards Nos. 46 Fabien Reboul and 47 Sadio Doumbia.
The tennis workforce from India and Australia gained the opening recreation of the primary set by breaking. However, a number of unforced errors in recreation two and a double fault in recreation twelve proved to be their downfall as they finally fell behind 1-0.
In the second set, neither workforce was capable of get a break. When serving within the twelfth recreation, Bopanna and Ebden performed effectively to keep away from a number of match factors and transfer the set right into a tiebreaker.
But Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul obtained out to a robust begin within the tiebreaker, successful it 7-5 to advance to the following spherical.
The duo of Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden gained the Indian Wells Masters in March by defeating Wesley Koolhof and Neil Skupski, who’s at present ranked No. 1 on the planet.
In February, Bopanna and Ebden gained the Qatar Open as effectively. The 2017 French Open’s combined doubles champion was Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada and Rohan Bopanna. He wouldn’t play in combined doubles this yr, although.
The native wildcard tennis workforce of Arthur Rinderknech and Enzo Couacaud have been simply defeated by Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni of India 6-3, 6-2 of their opening-round match on the French Open.
Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni additionally gained their first Grand Slam match collectively. They entered the Australian Open 2023 as wildcards however have been eradicated within the first spherical.
The Indian workforce had a robust begin and almost broke the French workforce in recreation two. In the fourth recreation, Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni lastly found the opening and took a 1-0 lead within the match.
The Indian workforce gained the primary two video games of the second set to swiftly construct a considerable benefit. Strong returns from Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni proved to be an excessive amount of for the French couple, who have been unable to match the eagerness of the Indian combo.
The victory enabled the Indian workforce to advance to a second-round matchup towards world No. 20 Santiago Gonzalez of Mexico and former French Open males’s doubles champion Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France.
N Sriram Balaji and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan of India, who have been entered in the primary draw as alternates, have been defeated 6-3, 6-4 by Ilya Ivashka and Alexei Popyrin of Australia within the opening spherical.
Ankita Raina, the lone Indian participant within the singles class and bronze medalist from the Asian Games, bowed out after falling to Japanese world No. 145 Moyuka Uchijima in straight video games. (ANI)