Balaji-Cornea lose; Bopanna- Babos pull out of mixed doubles

Rohan Bopanna. Pic/AFP

India's N Sriram Balaji and his Romanian partner Victor Vlad Cornea lost their second round men's doubles match to Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador and Mate Pavic of Croatia in the Australian Open here on Saturday.

The Indo-Romanian combo went down 3-6, 3-6 to their 10th-seeded opponents at the Rod Laver Arena.

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The Balaji-Cornea team came in as an alternate pair into the competition. While the Indian is ranked 79th in ATP doubles ranking, the Romanian is ranked 69th.

Yuki Bhamabri has already exited the competition with Dutch partner Robin Haase and so has the Indian pair of Vijay Sundar Prashanth and Anirudh Chandrasekar.

Meanwhile, Rohan Bopanna and his partner Timea Babos have pulled out of the mixed doubles competition.

Bopanna confirmed to PTI they have withdrawn their names from the competition.

No other Indian is part of the mixed doubles draw.

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