Wimbledon 2017: Bopanna loses, Indian challenge ends in men’s doubles

Wimbledon 2017: Bopanna loses, Indian challenge ends in men’s doubles

Indian tennis players Rohan Bopanna and Purav Raja were beaten by their adversaries in their respective categories and bowed out of the Wimbledon here on Friday.

In the men's doublings category, the eighth seed pair of Bopanna and his French partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin never gazed in the contention as the British pair of Neal Skupski and Ken Skupski outplayed the Indo-French duo 7-6, 6-3, 6-7, 6-3. 

In other match, Purav Raja and Divij Sharan were also overpowered by Rajeev Ram of America and Raven Klaasen of South africans in a hard fought battle. The competition went to the necktie breaker, in which the Ram and Klaasen proved superior against the Indian duo to clinch the issue 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-7( 10-8 ). 

Earlier, on Thursday, Bopanna and Roger-Vasselin fringed past German pair of Dustin Brown and Mischa Zverev 6-3, 7-6, 6-4 to advanced, while Purav Raja and Divij Sharan overcame the British-Portuguese pair of Kyle Edmunds and Joao Sousa 7-6( 2 ), 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (8 ).