Bops-Ebden in quarters after beating Balaji-Martinez

India’s Rohan Bopanna (left) and Matthew Ebden of Australia

Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden erased a one-set deficit to edge past the fighting pair of N Sriram Balaji and MA Reyes-Varela Martinez in the Super Tie-breaker, moving to the French Open quarter-finals, here on Monday.

The second-seeded Indo-Australian pair kept its cool in crunch moments to come out 6-7(2), 6-3, 7-6 (10-8), winners in the men's doubles third round.

Bopanna is yet to finalise his partner for the Paris Games and Balaji must have impressed the seasoned Coorgi, who is only the third Indian to win Grand Slam titles.

After staying on serve for first eight games, there was an opportunity for the second seeds to put pressure on the rivals when Balaji could not return Ebden's backhand volley, which made it 30-all.

However, Balaji managed to hold serve, staying ahead 5-4 in the opening set. Bopanna also held his serve comfortably. Another opportunity came for the second seeds when Reyes-Varela came out to serve and was down 15-40. The Indo-Mexican pair though saved both chances.

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