India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Australian associate Matthew Ebden reached the lads’s doubles quarterfinals on the US Open after defeating Julian Cash and Henry Patten in a hard-fought three-set match.
The sixth-seeded Indo-Australian pair gained an exhilarating match towards the British duo of Cash and Patten, with a closing rating of 6-4, 6-7(5), 7-6(10-6) after two hours and 22 minutes of play on the Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday.
Bopanna and Ebden, who had reached the Wimbledon semifinals earlier this yr, hit 13 aces and gained 81 per cent of their first-serve factors.
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They will face the winners of the third spherical match between prime seeds Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands and Neal Skupski of the United Kingdom, and native duo Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow.
Bopanna stays the one Indian within the fray within the males’s doubles occasion after Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni made first-round exits.
Bopanna crashed out of the combined doubles occasion, shedding in straight units 2-6, 5-7 to Ben Shelton and Taylor Townsend of the United States within the second spherical. Bopanna’s associate was Indonesian Aldila Sutjiadi.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com