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Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna and his Australian teammate Matthew Ebden advanced to the men’s doubles semi-finals for the third time this year, defeating Dutchman Sam Verbeek and Australian John Patrick Smith. The pair, who won the Australian Open earlier this year, overcame several unforced errors in the first set to win a hard-fought quarter-final 3-6 7-6 (4) 10-7. One final. A victory for the 44-year-old Bopanna, currently ranked second in the world, will help him stay in the top ten of the ATP doubles rankings and ensure direct qualification for the Paris Olympics in July-August.
The deadline for Paris direct qualifying rankings is June 10th.
The Bopanna-Ebden combination is the No. 1 seed here. Their first and second serve hits are not dominant, but they broke serve at the critical moment of the second set, taking the game to a tie-break, and then won and tied. grade.
Bopanna won his first Grand Slam at the Australian Open this year and reached a career-high world ranking following the success, but after losing in the quarter-finals of the Dubai Championships and reaching the last 32, The ranking slipped to second place. Withdrew from the Indian Wells Masters.
The India-Australia pair will face Marcel Granollers (Spain)/Horacio Zeballos (Argentina) and Lloyd Glasspool (England)/Jean- Winner between Julian Royer (Netherlands).
Bopanna and Ebden also reached the semi-finals of the Adelaide Open in January this year and reached the title match, losing to Rajiv Ram (USA) and Joe Soltz Bury (UK).
However, the US-UK pair will not meet the India-Australia pair in the semi-finals after losing in the quarter-finals.
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