Tennis: Bopanna-Shapovalov enter Rotterdam Open semifinals
Rotterdam/UNI: India's Rohan Bopanna and his Canadian partner Denis Shapovalov have advanced to the men's doubles semifinals of the Rotterdam Open Tennis tournament with a thrilling win over Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau here.
The Indo-Canadian pair registered a 6-2, 3-6, 10-7 victory against Romanian-Dutch pairing of Tecau and Rojer in 74 minutes in a quarterfinal played on Thursday night to enter the last four of the ATP 500 event.
Bopanna and Shapovalov had a decent first serve percentage of 67 and won three of the seven break points on offer. They will now meet the winners of match between Henri Kontinen and Jan-Lennard Struff versus Jamie Murray and Ken Skupski.
Bopanna and Shapovalov had entered the quarterfinals by beating the Australian pair of John Peers and Michael Venus 7-6, 6-7, 10-8 in a gripping encounter
Image credit : UNI.
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