 "French Open 2016: India’s Rohan Bopanna and partner Florin Mergea ousted in quarter-finals")
Paris: India’s tennis star Rohan Bopanna and his men’s doubles partner Florin Mergea were knocked out in the quarters-finals of the French Open on Wednesday. [caption id=“attachment_2811160” align=“alignleft” width=“409”]  Rohan Bopanna of India and Florin Mergea. Getty Images[/caption] Third seeded pair of Croatia’s Ivan Dodig and Brazil’s Marcelo Melo defeated the Indo-Romanian sixth seeded pair 6-4, 6-4 in one hour 15 minutes to progress to the semi-finals. The match began on positive note for both sides as they won their respective games to make it 3-3. But Dodig-Melo broke their opponents’ serve at a crucial juncture of the set to grab the advantage. The third seed made the best use of the advantage to win all their serves thereafter to claim the first set 6-4. In the second set, the Croatian and Brazilian dominated the proceedings as they broke Bopanna-Mergea yet again to seize the initiative and went on to win the set 6-4 and the match.
India’s tennis star Rohan Bopanna and his men’s doubles partner Florin Mergea were knocked out in the quarters-finals of the French Open on Wednesday.
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