Monte Carlo: India's Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden lost to Croatia's Mate Pavic and El Salvador's Marcel Arévalo in their men's doubles round of 16 match at the Monte Carlo Masters here on Wednesday.
They lost 3-6, 6-7 (6-8).
Bopanna and Ebden fell behind early in the first set and could not recover. In the second set, the Indo-Australian pair looked to be making a comeback of sorts, but their opponents played very well and won the tie-breaker.
Nagal match postponed due to rain
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Indian tennis star Sumit Nagal was trailing in his second round men's singles match against Denmark's Holger Roon when the match was postponed due to rain.
Unseeded Nagal lost the first set 3-6 and when the skies opened up, he was trailing 1-2 against seventh seed Roon.
Holger was dominating the match until the rain stopped.
The 36-year-old Nagal entered the match enjoying great form.
At the Roquebrune-Cap-Martin clay court, he first defeated eighth seed Flavio Coboli in the qualifiers, and then third seed Facundo Díaz Acosto to reach the main draw of the prestigious tournament.
In singles tennis, India's flag bearer defeated Italy's Matteo Arnoldi 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 in the first round.
On Monday, Nagal became the first Indian to win a main draw match at the Monte Carlo Masters when he defeated world No. 38 Arnaldi of Italy in the opening round.
Nagal became the first player from the country to win a main draw match in one of the three Masters 1000 events held on clay – a series that began in 1990.
Having recently achieved a career-high ranking of 93rd in the ATP Rankings, Nagal has become only the third Indian to feature in the main draw of Monaco, joining the great Vijay Amritraj (in 1977) and Ramesh Krishnan (in 1982). went.
They lost 3-6, 6-7 (6-8).
Bopanna and Ebden fell behind early in the first set and could not recover. In the second set, the Indo-Australian pair looked to be making a comeback of sorts, but their opponents played very well and won the tie-breaker.
Nagal match postponed due to rain
,
Indian tennis star Sumit Nagal was trailing in his second round men's singles match against Denmark's Holger Roon when the match was postponed due to rain.
Unseeded Nagal lost the first set 3-6 and when the skies opened up, he was trailing 1-2 against seventh seed Roon.
Holger was dominating the match until the rain stopped.
The 36-year-old Nagal entered the match enjoying great form.
At the Roquebrune-Cap-Martin clay court, he first defeated eighth seed Flavio Coboli in the qualifiers, and then third seed Facundo Díaz Acosto to reach the main draw of the prestigious tournament.
In singles tennis, India's flag bearer defeated Italy's Matteo Arnoldi 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 in the first round.
On Monday, Nagal became the first Indian to win a main draw match at the Monte Carlo Masters when he defeated world No. 38 Arnaldi of Italy in the opening round.
Nagal became the first player from the country to win a main draw match in one of the three Masters 1000 events held on clay – a series that began in 1990.
Having recently achieved a career-high ranking of 93rd in the ATP Rankings, Nagal has become only the third Indian to feature in the main draw of Monaco, joining the great Vijay Amritraj (in 1977) and Ramesh Krishnan (in 1982). went.
