Rohan Bopanna ousted in opening round; Yuki Bhambri advances

Indian veteran Rohan Bopanna and his partner Romain Arneodo of Monaco crashed out in the opening round of the men’s doubles event at the US Open 2025 tennis tournament on Saturday.

The Indo-Monegasque pair were beaten 6-4, 6-3 by the American duo of Robert Cash and James Tracy.

Bopanna, 45, and Arneodo, 33, were broken in the ninth game of the first set, and again in the seventh and ninth games of the second.

Rohan Bopanna, who finished as runners-up in the 2010 and 2023 editions of the US Open, had made it to the pre-quarterfinals of the final Grand Slam of the season last year.

Meanwhile, the 14th-seeded pair of India’s Yuki Bhambri and New Zealand’s Michael Venus progressed to the second round of the men’s doubles without much resistance.

Taking on the USA’s Marcos Giron and Learner Tien, Yuki Bhambri and Michael Venus took the first set without conceding a game.

They broke the American duo again in the fourth game of the second set and wrapped up the contest 6-0, 6-3 in an hour and one minute to advance to the second round.

The Indian tennis player and Michael Venus will take on Colombia’s Gonzalo Escobar and Mexico’s Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela in the second round on Monday.

Elsewhere, Arjun Kadhe and his partner Diego Hidalgo of Ecuador exited the US Open after going down in three sets against Croatia’s Mate Pavić and El Salvador’s Marcelo Arévalo.

Arjun Kadhe and Diego Hidalgo earned a break point in the 12th game of the first set to take the opener before losing the second in a tie-break.

The Indo-Ecudorian duo were broken once more in the 10th game of the decider as they stumbled to a 5-7, 7(7)-6(4), 6-4 defeat.

The duo of Anirudh Chandrasekar and Vijay Sundar Prashanth, who pulled off an upset in the first round, are the other Indians still alive in the US Open. They will face Brazil’s Fernando Romboli and Australia’s John-Patrick Smith in the second round.

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