India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Hungarian partner Timea Babos got the better of Marcelo Demoliner and Martinez Sanchez to reach…
Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna (Photo: IANS)
India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Hungarian partner Timea Babos got the better of Marcelo Demoliner and Martinez Sanchez to reach the Australian Open final, on Friday.
The Indo-Hungarian pair won their first set 7-5 in 34 minutes but lost the second set to Demoliner and Sanchez 5-7. However, they fought back hard to clinch the third set 10-6 and won the semi-final in three sets.
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Earlier, Bopanna and Babos had registered a straight-sets victory over Colombia’s Juan Sebastian Cabal and American Abigail Spears in a quarter-final contest which lasted for an hour and 15 minutes.
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