Sydney International: Rohan Bopanna-Edouard Roger-Vasselin bow out of doubles after semi-final loss

Sydney: India’s Rohan Bopanna and Edouard Roger-Vasselin, who joined forces for the 2018 season, fought their hearts out before losing the semi-final of the ATP Sydney International to world number one team of Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo, in Sydney on Thursday. The fourth seeded Indo-French pair gave a scare to the top-seeded Polish-Brazilian pair before losing the closely-fought semi-final 4-6 7-5 8-10 in one hour and 29 minutes. [caption id=“attachment_3528755” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  File image of Rohan Bopanna. Getty Images[/caption] There was not much of a difference in the two teams as the winners won 70 points to the 64 of Bopanna and Roger-Vasselin. They broke each other twice in the contest. The victors will now fight it out with Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff and Romanian Viktor Troicki, who toppled second seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau 7-6(5) 6-1. It was the last tournament in build up to the first Grand Slam of the season, the Australian Open. Bopanna had played the season-opening Tata Open Maharashtra with Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan in Pune, losing in the quarter-finals.