US Open: Rohan Bopanna and Ivan Dodig go down combating in males’s doubles third spherical

US Open: The Indian problem ended on the closing Grand Slam of the season as Rohan Bopanna and Ivan Dodig misplaced 7-6(4) 4-6 6-7(3) in a gruelling males’s doubles third spherical contest towards Australian Open runners-up Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury. Bopanna’s defeat marked the Indian problem on the US Open. (Reuters Photo)HIGHLIGHTSBopanna’s exit marked the tip of the Indian problem on the US OpeSania Mirza misplaced her combined and ladies’s doubles matchesAnkita Raina misplaced within the first spherical at ladies’s doubles and didn’t go previous the qualifiers in singlesIndia’s problem on the 2021 US Open ended as veteran Rohan Bopanna and his Croatian associate Ivan Dodig misplaced 7-6(4) 4-6 6-7(3) within the males’s doubles third spherical.

Bopanna and Dodig, seeded thirteenth, fought their hearts out earlier than dropping to fourth seeds Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury.The match was a gruelling contest with Ram and Salisbury, who have been runners up within the Australian Open, successful in two hours and half-hour.Ram had partnered India’s Sania Mirza within the combined doubles and the pair misplaced 3-6, 6-3, 7-10 to Max Purcell and Dayana Yastremska. Sania partnered USA’s Coco Vandeweghe within the ladies’s doubles, dropping 6-4, 4-6, 4-6 to her former ladies’s doubles associate Nadiia Kichenok and Raluca Olaru.Ankita Raina, didn’t make previous the qualifiers in ladies’s singles. She partnered Kateryna Bodarenko in ladies’s doubles, dropping 1-6, 1-6 to Andrej Klepac and Darija Jurak.Prajnesh Gunneswaran, Sumit Nagal and Ramkumar Ramanathan couldn’t not qualify for the singles fundamental draw, falling within the Qualifiers.Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.