Misc Tennis

Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden fought their way past Nicolas Barrientos and Rafael Matos

Storm Sanders was Australia’s hero after she won the first singles rubber before returning for the deciding doubles match alongside 38-year-old Samantha Stosur.

Rohan Bopanna. File photo
| Photo Credit: Getty Images

Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden fought their way past Nicolas Barrientos and Rafael Matos 6-2, 6-7(4), [10-7] in the doubles quarterfinals of the $739,945 ATP tennis tournament in Adelaide on Thursday.

It was the first match on court this season for the second seeded Indo-Aussie pair which had a walkover in the pre-quarterfinals after a bye in the first round.

In the semifinals, Bopanna and Ebden will play Gonzalo Escobar and Aleksandr Nedovyesov.

The results:

$739,945 ATP, Adelaide: Doubles, quarterfinals: Rohan Bopanna & Matthew Ebden (Aus) bt Nicolas Barrientos (Col) & Rafael Matos (Bra) 6-2, 6-7(4), [10-7].

$82,000 Challenger, Nonthaburi, Thailand: Doubles, quarterfinals: Salvatore Caruso & Giovanni Fonio (Ita) bt Saketh Myneni & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-3, 6-2; Manuel Guinard & Gregoire Jacq (Fra) bt Rithvik Bollipalli & Niki Poonacha 7-6(3), 4-6, [10-6].

€74,825 Challenger, Oeiras, Portugal

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Arjun Kadhe & Marcus Willis (GBR) bt Tiago Pereira & Francisco Rocha (Por) 6-1, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF men, Kish Island, Iran: Singles, pre-quarterfinals: Hazem Naw (Syr) bt Parth Aggarwal 6-4, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF men, Monastir, Tunisia: Doubles, pre-quarterfinals: Alexander Brown (USA) & Daniel Vishnick (GBR) bt Chirag Duhan & Michalis Sakellaridis (Gre) 4-6, 7-5, [11-9].

$35,000 ITF women, Naples, USA: Doubles, pre-quarterfinals: Clervie Ngounoue & Malkia Menguene (USA) bt Riya Bhatia & Savanna Ly-Nguyen (Vie) 6-4, 6-1.

$35,000 ITF women, Antalya, Turkey: First round: Carmen Herea (Rou) bt Vasanti Shinde 6-1, 6-3.

Click Here to Read the Full Original Article at | The Hindu…