The match lasted for one hour and 48 minutes.
Melbourne, India’s Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza crashed out of the first round of men’s and women’s doubles respectively in the Australian Open tennis tournament after losing their first round matches here on Wednesday. .
Bopanna and his French partner Eduard Roger Veselin got off to a good start against wild card entrants Christopher Rangkat and Treat Huey, but then their momentum went haywire and were eventually handed 6-3 in the first round match. , lost 6-7(2), 2-6. The match lasted for one hour and 48 minutes.
Sania and her Ukrainian partner Nadia Kichnok, on the other hand, lost 4-6, 6-7(5) to Slavanian pair of Tamara Zidansek and Kaja Juvan in one hour and 37 minutes. Kitchennock was not in tune today and he made a lot of innocuous mistakes. Bopanna and Sania will now try their luck in mixed doubles. Bopanna has paired up with Croatia’s Daria Jurak Schreiber while Sania has paired up with US’s Rajiv Ram.
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Four players from India took part in the singles qualifiers but none of them made it to the main draw. Bopanna and Veselin got their first break point opportunity in the fourth game which they were able to capitalize on. Bopanna then took the first set on his serve in the ninth game.
Rangkat and Huey showed an aggressive approach from the start in the second set. He got a chance to take a break point twice in the first game itself but he could not take advantage of it. After this both the pairs kept their serve and finally the set was pulled till the tie-breaker. The pair, entered by wild card, leveled the match by scoring six consecutive points in the tiebreaker. Rangkat and Huey maintained their momentum even after this, easily winning the third set and the match. (agency)