Paris Masters: Bopanna-Shapovalov knocked out in quarter-finals

The Indian-Canadian pair fired 10 aces and committed three double faults throughout the course of the match. They also saved four out of seven breakpoints and won two of two but still emerged on the losing side at the end of the match.

Paris: India tennis star Rohan Bopanna and his Canadian partner Denis Shapovalov knocked out of the Paris Masters in the quarter-finals. The Russian duo of Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev won the hard-fought match to entre semi-finals.

On Friday evening, Bopanna-Shapovalov went down fighting 5-7, 7-6, 8-10 against the Russian duo in a match that lasted over 80 minutes to exit the ATP Masters 1000 tournament.

Bopanna-Shapovalov

The Indian-Canadian pair fired 10 aces and committed three double faults throughout the course of the match. They also saved four out of seven breakpoints and won two of two but still emerged on the losing side at the end of the match.

Bopanna and Shapovalov had earlier defeated the American-Argentine pair of Manuel Gonzalez and Austin Krajicek in their Round of 16 matches. Before that they had got the better of Benoit Paire and Fernando Verdasco to move into the pre-quarters.

Khachanov and Rublov will now face the Slovakian-Croatian pair of Filip Polasek and Ivan Dodig for a place in the final.