Indian tennis ace Rohan Bopanna and his French partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin suffered a major blow as they crashed out of the Miami Open after going in the second round of the men’s doubles event here on Monday.
The Indo-French duo failed to capitalize their opening-round performance and dipped to a 6-7 (5-7), 2-6 defeat at the hands of the American pair of Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey in a round-of-16 clash.
With this the Indian challenge at Miami Open 2018 comes to an end, as Yuki Bhambri was earlier eliminated in the men singles event.
Earlier, The Indo-French duo cruised past Adrian Mannarino of France and Daniil Medvedev of Russia in the first round face-off. They came back from a set down to register a brilliant 4-6, 6-2, 14-12 win over the duo in opening round of the men’s doubles event.
Johnson and Querrey will now take on the winner of another last-16 encounter between the South Korean-Canadian team of Hyeon Chung – Denis Shapovalov or the Colombian pair of Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah.
