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Monte-Carlo Masters: Bopanna-Shelton bow out in the quarter-final

Monte-Carlo Masters: Bopanna-Shelton bow out in the quarter-final

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Indian tennis ace Rohan Bopanna and his American partner Ben Shelton exited the 2025 Monte-Carlo Masters in the quarterfinals on Friday in Monaco, France. The Indo-American duo failed to carry forward their winning momentum, falling in a tight three-setter (2-6, 6-4, 7-10) against home favourite Romain Arneodo and his French partner Manuel Guinard. No place like home! 👏 Monegasque Romain Arneodo and partner Manuel Guinard defeat Shetlon/Bopanna 6-2 4-6 10-7 to move into the semi-finals#RolexMonteCarloMasters pic.twitter.com/NFm6jeVMfD — Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters (@ROLEXMCMASTERS) April 11, 2025 Bopanna and Shelton had a poor start, with both players dropping one service game each and failing to convert their two break-point opportunities, ultimately conceding the opening set 2-6. They bounced back strongly in the second set, not allowing a single break-point opportunity to their opponents. Their solid play led to the first break of serve against the French-Monégasque pair, helping them level the match. However, in the deciding set, Arneodo and Guinard maintained a 100% first-serve record and held their nerves in the super tiebreaker, edging past Bopanna and Shelton …

Monte-Carlo Masters: Bopanna-Shelton advance to the quarterfinal

Monte-Carlo Masters: Bopanna-Shelton advance to the quarterfinal

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The Indo-American duo of Rohan Bopanna and Ben Shelton continued their good form to reach the quarterfinals of the Monte-Carlo ATP Masters 1000 event at Monte Carlo Country Club, France, on Wednesday. Rohan and his younger partner, Shelton, came from behind to get the better of the third seeded Italian pair of Andrea Vavassori and Simone Bolelli in three sets (2-6, 7-6, 10-7) in an hour and 38 minutes. Rohan, rewriting history in every match, broke his own record to became the oldest man to win an ATP Masters 1000 match, which he created just few days back after his first round victory at this event. Still..Ageless Rojan bopanna has super firepower to shine on highest level of the game. #MonteCarlomasters2025 pic.twitter.com/F9SlBVUTtT — Sport in a nutshell (@Shuvo10976159) April 9, 2025 A brilliant comeback Rohan and Shelton had a poor opening set as both of the players dropped one break each and lost the first set dreadfully with the scores of 2-6. In the second set, they had another break on the serve, and a …

Rohan Bopanna enters Monte-Carlo Masters Round of 16

Rohan Bopanna enters Monte-Carlo Masters Round of 16

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Indian veteran Rohan Bopanna and partner Ben Shelton advanced to the men’s doubles round of 16 at the 2025 Monte-Carlo Masters ATP 1000 event on Sunday. Bopanna and Shelton got the better of Francisco Cerundolo and Alejandro Tabilo 6-3, 7-5 in straight sets in the opening round of the competition. The Indo-American pair did not have the best of starts as they were broken in just their second serve in the third game of the first set. They, however, bounced back to break Cerundolo and Tabilo in the next game to equalise at 2-2. The two pairs held their serves for the next three games before Bopanna-Shelton broke again to take a 5-3 lead. They then held their serve next to pocket the opening set 6-3 in 27 minutes. The second set saw both Bopanna-Shelton and Cerundolo-Tabilo holding their own serves for the first ten games. With the scores reading 5-5, the Indo-American duo broke through to lead 6-5. They then held their serve 40-15 to pocket a hard fought second set 7-6 and wrap …

Rohan Bopanna-Matthew Ebden Duo Loses In Monte-Carlo Masters

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India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden lost their round of 16 men’s doubles match to Mate Pavic of Croatia and Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador at the Monte Carlo Masters on Wednesday. They lost 3-6 6-7 (6-8). Bopanna and Ebden fell behind quickly in the first set and could not recover from there. The Indo-Australian combo seemed to make a comeback of sorts in the second set but their opponents played very well to seal the issue in the tie-breaker. Nagal match suspended owing to rain Indian tennis ace Sumit Nagal was trailing in his second round men’s singles match against Holger Rune of Denmark, when rain led to a suspension of the contest. The unseeded Nagal lost the first set 3-6 and was behind 1-2 against seventh seed Rune, when the heavens opened up. Holger was dominating the match until the rain interruption. The 36-year-old Nagal entered the match having enjoyed an excellent run of form. At the Roquebrune-Cap-Martin clay court, he first humbled the eight seeded Flavio Cobolli in the …