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Bopanna-Matwé bow out of French Open

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Paris, June 2: India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Dutch partner Matwé Middelkoop saved two match points but their dream run at the French Open ended with a semifinal defeat at the hands of Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer, here on Thursday.
The 16th seeds, Bopanna and Middelkoop, lost 6-4 3-6 6-7 (8-10) to the 12th seeded pair from El Salvador and the Netherlands in the men’s doubles match that lasted two hours and seven minutes.
No Indian has played in a Grand Slam men’s doubles final since Leander Paes’ 2013 US Open triumph. Bopanna was bidding to become the first Indian in nine years to achieve the feat. (PTI)

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