And, with a close defeat in the quarters of the Paris Masters, Indiaโs best doubles player, Rohan Bopannaโs year came to an end. The team of Bopanna and Matthew Ebden lost to Dutch-Croatian team of Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektic 6-7, 5-7, in a very closely contested match, where the result could have gone anywhere.
Rohan Bopanna Ousted from Paris Masters
“๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ” โ ๐๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป๐ป๐ฎ
5 set points saved
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โ Indian Tennis Daily (ITD) (@IndTennisDaily) November 1, 2024
With scores locked at 6-6 in the first set, it went into a tie-break, where it was decided at 15-13. Then in the second set too, it was a close affair, as there was nothing much to choose from the two teams, whose scores were locked at 5-5, at one point. Meanwhile, Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden had a solid run in the Paris Masters, where they reached the quarters after a solid win over Alexander Zverev and Marcelo Melo, 6-4, 7-6(5) on Tuesday.
Reflecting on the match, Bopanna made it clear that they were up against a good pair. โFirst of all, theyโve been playing well this year. Theyโre a good team. Even a couple of years ago when they were together, they came close to winning a Grand Slam. So coming into the match, we knew it was going to be a tough match. Quick courts here, so you get only those one or two chances. As you saw, the first set tiebreak โ I donโt even remember the score, we kept changing sides,โ Bopanna was quoted as saying by Indian Tennis Daily.
Focus on ATP Finals
Having won the Australian Open and Miami Open this year already, now the Indo-Australian Express will have a chance to add another trophy to their cabinet โ the ATP Finals, to be played in Turin, Italy, from November 10-17. Bopanna added, that he would be leaving for the venue early to get some important training time.
โYa, straight to Turin (for the ATP Finals). Will head there a few days early and train there for a few days,โ he added.
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