French Open: Bopanna and Vasselin reach men's doubles quarters
Tennis | June 02, 2018 20:55 ISTIt's the third time that Bopanna has reached quarterfinal stage at Roland Garros. He made it to the last-eight pairs in 2011 and 2016 also.
It's the third time that Bopanna has reached quarterfinal stage at Roland Garros. He made it to the last-eight pairs in 2011 and 2016 also.
Bopanna and his French partner Roger-Vasselin began their Roland Garros campaign with a comfortable win over the American team of Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe.
Rohan Bopanna began his men's doubles campaign with an easy win along with French partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin in Paris on Tuesday.
The seventh-seeded Indo-French pair lost 6-7(5) 4-6 to their unseeded opponents of Pablo Cuevas and Marcel Granollers in one hour and 32 minutes.
Leander Paes, India's Davis Cup hero for years, was tied on 42 wins with Italian great Nicola Pietrangeli for long but finally surpassed him, albeit, in a foreign land.
Rohan Bopanna and Edouard Roger-Vasselin slumped to a 6-7 (5-7), 2-6 defeat at the hands of the American pair of Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey in a round-of-16 clash.
The 64-year-old, who is now a commentator, said he was not in favour of tinkering with the Davis Cup format and suggested that the ITF should make competition in the elite World Group a biennial affair with all top players part of it.
The fifth-seeded duo of Bopanna and Babos lost 6-2, 4-6, 9-11 to the Croat-Canadian pair of Pavic and Dabrowski, seeded eighth, in a match which lasted one hour and eight minutes.
Bopanna and Babos fought back after losing the second set to Demoliner from Brazil and Sanchez from Spain to beat them 7-5, 5-7, 10-6 in a gruelling three-set semifinal.
The fifth-seeded Indo-Hungarian pair took one hour and 15 minutes to get the better of Cabal-Spears duo 6-4 7-6 (5) in the quarterfinal duel.
The Indo-Hungarian pair will now face the unseeded duo of Juan Sebastian Cabal from Colombia and Abigail Spears from the USA in the quarterfinals on Wednesday.
The Indo-Hungarian pair brushed aside the duo of Ellen Perez and Andrew Whittington 6-2, 6-4 on the Margaret Court Arena.
Bopanna and Roger-Vasselin will have to be at the top of their game in the next round as they will be up against seventh seeds Mate Pavic of Croatia and Oliver Marach of Austria.
There was not much of a difference in the two teams as the winners won 70 points to the 64 of Bopanna and Roger- Vasselin.
Bopanna and left-handed Jeevan were up against Gilles Simon and two-time Grand Slam champion Pierre-Hugues Herbert where they lost 3-6, 5-7 in one hour and 10 minutes.
Bopanna and Nedunchezhiyan had formed a lethal combination to edge past Sharan and Raja earlier this year to win the Chennai Open title.
The 36-year-old Indian, ranked 18 in the world, had paired with Uruguayan Cuevas last year.
India's singles challenge ended at the Vietnam Open following the defeat of Yuki Bhambri.
The Indo-Argentine duo failed to replicate their good performance in the opening round and slump to a narrow 5-7, 6-7 (6-8) defeat.
Rohan Bopanna and his Argentine partner Pablo Cuevas will cross swords with Australia's John Peers and Finland's Henri Kontinen in the quarter-finals.
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