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 excellent begin to their French Open marketing campaign right here on Wednesday.
Yuki and Saketh, who had received the Bangkok Open Challenger in January this 12 months, took 64 minutes to get the higher of Arthur and Enzo 6-3 6-2 of their opening match.
Nonetheless, Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna and his Australian associate Matthew Ebden couldn’t cross the opening hurdle, happening 5-7 6-7 (5-7) to French mixture of Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul within the males’s doubles competitors.
The India-Australian pair, who had received the BNP Paribas Open, Qatar Open and reached the finals of Madrid Open this 12 months, saved 5 match factors earlier than the French duo prevailed.
It was additionally the top of highway 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.