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Indian tennis: Bopanna through to doubles semis in Rotterdam, Sharan loses in New York Open quarters
by Scroll StaffIndia’s Rohan Bopanna and his Canadian partner Denis Shapovalov advanced to the men’s doubles semi-finals of the Rotterdam Open with an impressive win over fourth seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau.
The unseeded Indo-Canadian combine to beat the Romanian-Dutch pairing of Tecau and Rojer 6-2, 3-6, 10-7 in a quarter-final of the ATP 500 event on Thursday.
India’s Divij Sharan, though, suffered a defeat in his New York Open men’s doubles quarter-final match. Sharan and his partner Artem Sitak lost 3-6, 4-6 to Steve Johnson and Reilly Opelka at the ATP 250 event.
Bopanna and Shapovalov had a decent first serve percentage of 67 and won three of the seven break points on offer.
They next meet the winners of the quarter-final between Henri Kontinen and Jan-Lennard Struff, and, Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski.
(With inputs from PTI)
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