File photo of Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden©AFP
Veteran Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden qualified for the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters after suffering a tough defeat in the men’s doubles event in Paris. The third-seeded Indian-Australian duo toiled for an hour and 46 minutes before losing 6-7, 5-7 to the Dutch-Croatian combo of Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektic at the ATP 1000 event Friday. There was little to separate the two pairs as the first set went into a tiebreaker. Bopanna and Ebden had a few chances but Koolhof and Mektic saved set points to win the tiebreak and take a 1-0 lead.
The second set was also closely contested, but Bopanna and Ebden provided Koolhof and Mektic with a crucial break in the 12th game following a double fault.
Earlier this week, Bopanna and Ebden clinched a spot in the prestigious season-ending ATP Finals.
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