India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Canadian accomplice Denis Shapovalov surprised prime seeded Croatian pair of Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic in straight units to enter males’s doubles quarterfinals on the Miami Open tennis event.
The unseeded Indo-Canadian pair shocked Mektic and Pavic 6-3 7-6(3) in a second spherical doubles match on Sunday.
Bopanna and Shapovalov will now face the sixth seeded pair of Wesley Koolhof of Netherlands and Great Britain’s Neal Skupski for a spot within the semifinals.
Koolhof and Skupski defeated the Spanish-Italian mixture of Pedro Martinez and Lorenzo Sonego 6-3 7-6(8) within the second spherical.
Bopanna and Shapovalov earlier registered a combating 6-7(5) 6-2 10-3 win over Marceloa Avrevalo of El Salvador and Jean-Juien Rojer of Netherlands within the opening spherical of the ATP Masters 1000 occasion.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
