Rohan Bopanna (left) of India and Matthew Ebden of Australia. File
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India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Australian accomplice Matthew Ebden moved into the second spherical of the Wimbledon males’s doubles occasion with a easy win over Robin Haas and Sander Arends in London.
Bopanna and Ebden sailed previous their Dutch opponents 7-5, 6-4 in an hour and 11 minutes in a rain-interrupted match on July 3.
The second seeds, who’re the present Australian Open champions, will face Germany’s Hendrik Jebens and Constantin Frantzen within the second spherical.
The Indo-Australian pair had reached the semifinals of the season’s third Grand Slam final yr.
Earlier on Wednesday, India’s Sumit Nagal and his Serbian accomplice Dusan Lajovic had been ousted within the first spherical by Spaniards Pedro Martinez and Jaume Munar.
Martinez and Munar received 6-2, 6-2 in a single hour and 7 minutes.
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India may have additional illustration in males’s doubles first spherical via N Sriram Balaji and Yuki Bhambri in a while July 4.
Balaji will accomplice Britain’s Luke Johnson and can face fourth seeds Mate Pavic of Serbia and Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador.
Alternatively, Bhambri and France’s Albano Olivetti will tackle the Kazakh duo of Alexander Bublik and Alexander Shevchenko.