In Tennis, the Indian pair of Purav Raja and Divij Sharan upstaged the 15th-seeded Austrian-Croat combo of Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic to enter the men's doubles pre-quarterfinals of French Open. The unseeded Indian combo defeated Oliver and Mate 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in the second-round match that lasted for two hours and 11 minutes. The duo will next face the 11th seeded team of Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands and Romania's Horia Tecau.India's Rohan Bopanna and his Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrowski notched up a facile 6-0 6-1 win over Australian pair of Jessica Moore and Matt Reid in the opening match of mixed doubles yesterday. The seventh seeded duo will next face New Zealand's Artem Sitak and Elina Svitolina of Ukraine in the second round. Today, in Men's double second round events, the pair of Bopanna and his Uruguayan parter Pablo Cuevas will take on American-Uzbek pair of Treat Huey and Denis Istomin. In mixed double, Leander Paes and his swiss partner Martina Hingis will clash with Slovenian- South African pair Katarina Srebotnik and Raven Klaasen in second round.
News On AIR | June 2, 2017 11:06 AM
French Open: Indian pair of Raja-Sharan in pre-quarters<br/>