Bopanna-Middelkoop bow out

Rohan Bopanna

India's Rohan Bopanna and his Dutch partner Matwé Middelkoop saved two match points, but their dream run at the French Open ended with a semi-final defeat at the hands of Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer, here on Thursday.

The 16th seeds, Bopanna and Middelkoop, who have played some exhilarating tennis throughout, lost 6-4 3-6 6-7 (8-10) to the 12th seeded pair from El Salvador and the Netherlands in the men's doubles match that lasted two hours and seven minutes.

No Indian has played in a Grand Slam men's doubles final since Leander Paes's 2013 US Open triumph and Bopanna was bidding to become the first Indian in nine years to achieve the feat.

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