French Open: Yuki-Saketh enter 2nd spherical, Bopanna-Ebden lose in opener

The Indian tennis pair of Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni notched up a straight-set win over France’s Arthur Rinderknech and Enzo Couacaud in males’s doubles to make an outstanding start to their French Open advertising and marketing marketing campaign proper right here on Wednesday.

Yuki and Saketh, who had gained the Bangkok Open Challenger in January this yr, took 64 minutes to get the upper of Arthur and Enzo 6-3 6-2 of their opening match.

However, Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna and his Australian confederate Matthew Ebden couldn’t cross the opening hurdle, happening 5-7 6-7 (5-7) to French combination of Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul throughout the males’s doubles rivals.

The India-Australian pair, who had gained the BNP Paribas Open, Qatar Open and reached the finals of Madrid Open this yr, saved 5 match components sooner than the French duo prevailed.

It was moreover the tip of freeway for N Sriram Balaji and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan after they went down 3-6 4-6 to Belarus’ Ilya Ivashka and Alexei Popyrin of Australia of their opener.