It was a very good day for Indian Grand Slam debutants as Manas Dhamne and the pair of Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and N Sriram Balaji received the primary spherical of boys’ singles and males’s doubles respectively.
Dhamne, the 15-year-old promising expertise, started his junior Slam journey with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Australian wild card Jeremy Zhang. The Jeevan-Balaji pair, which bought a late alternate entry within the doubles draw, surprised fifth seeds Ivan Dodig of Croatia and American Austin Krajicek 7-6(6), 2-6, 6-4 of their maiden Slam look.
The Indian combo has been on a constant run on the Challenger Tour since final yr and in addition made remaining of the ATP 250 Tata Open Maharashtra in Pune this month. Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna swept previous locals Jaimee Fourlis and Luke Saville 7-5, 6-3 of their combined doubles opening spherical.