Indian challenge ends as Bopanna bows out of Australian Open
PTI, Jan 30, 2020, 2:58 PM IST
Melbourne: The Indian challenge at the Australian Open ended after Rohan Bopanna and his Ukrainian partner Nadiia Kichenok were knocked out in straight sets in the quarterfinal of the mixed doubles event here on Thursday.
The Indo-Ukrainian pair went down 0-6 2-6 to fifth seed Nikola Mektic and Barbora Krejcikova in a 47-minute encounter.
Bopanna and Kichenok struggled from the beginning and failed to hold their serve. The Croatian-Czech pair completely dominated the proceedings from the word go, easily taking the first set.
In the second set, Bopanna and Kichenok managed to hold their serves in the first game but were easily broken in the second and the seventh, meekly handing over a semifinal spot to Mektic and Borbara.
On Tuesday, veteran Leander Paes’ last Australian Open outing came to an end after he and partner Jelena Ostapenko made a second-round exit in the mixed doubles event.
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