Rohan Bopanna and Matwe Middelkoop will face twelfth seeds Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Roger on June 2 within the final 4
Rohan Bopanna and Matwe Middelkoop will face twelfth seeds Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Roger on June 2 within the final 4
India’s Rohan Bopanna reached his first Grand Slam semifinal in seven years after he and his Dutch associate Matwe Middelkoop rallied to beat Lloyd Glasspool and Henri Heliovaara within the males’s doubles quarterfinals of the French Open, in Paris.
The Indo-Dutch pair eked out a 4-6 6-4 7-6 (3) win over the British-Finnish mixture in a hard-fought contest on May 30 evening.
Bopanna final reached the semifinals of a tennis Major on the 2015 Wimbledon Championships when he had teamed up with Romania’s Florin Mergea and misplaced in a gruelling five-setter to Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau.
Bopanna, 42, and Middelkoop, 38, will face twelfth seeds Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Roger on Thursday within the final 4.
Bopanna and Middelkoop misplaced the opening set however dished out an excellent fightback to win the following two to emerge victorious.
In the decider, the Indo-Dutch pair confirmed great psychological fortitude to fightback from 3-5 all the way down to take the match to a Super Tie-break.
They had been once more 0-3 behind however received 10 straight factors to come back up trumps.
Bopanna and Middelkoop had saved 5 match factors to knock out Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic, the reigning Wimbledon champions, from the Roland Garros, on Saturday.
Source: www.thehindu.com
