French Open 2023: India’s drawback ends after Yuki Bhambri, Saketh Myneni lose in 2nd spherical

By India Today Sports Desk: India’s Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni had been eradicated from the French Open 2023 on Friday after shedding to Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Santiago Gonzalez inside the second spherical of males’s doubles on the Roland Garros Stadium in Paris.

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The unseeded Indian tennis duo misplaced 4-6, 5-7 in a single hour and 38 minutes to ninth seeds Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France and Santiago Gonzalez of Mexico.

Edouard Roger-Vasselin is a former French Open males’s doubles winner, whereas Santiago Gonzalez is positioned twentieth inside the ATP doubles rankings.

Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni, rated 74th and seventy fifth inside the ATP doubles rankings, dominated the first recreation and broke their higher-ranked opponents inside the second.

The Indian duo, nonetheless, had been unable to maintain up their momentum and had been broken twice by Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Santiago Gonzalez, who went on to take a 1-0 lead.

Roger-Vasselin and Gonzalez took advantage of the momentum inside the first and fifth video video games. Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni broke the French-Mexican combo as soon as extra to tie the match at 5-5.

The two Indian tennis avid gamers, then once more, had been pushed once more and misplaced the next two video video games to exit the Grand Slam inside the second spherical.

Earlier inside the occasion, Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni acquired their first match as a workers, defeating the native wildcard pairing of Arthur Rinderknech and Enzo Couacaud 6-3, 6-2.

Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni had been eradicated inside the first spherical of the Australian Open 2023 after moving into as wildcards.

The defeat efficiently ended India’s drawback inside the French Open. Earlier on Wednesday, the Indo-Australian tandem of Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden, along with the Indian duo of N Sriram Balaji and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan, had been every eradicated inside the first spherical.

Ankita Raina, the one Indian participant to compete inside the singles class, was eradicated inside the qualifying rounds.