Divij Sharan and his wife Samantha Murray Sharan’s dream of playing at Wimbledon together finally reached fruition after seven years – and to top it all they won their first-round mixed doubles match on Friday. Sharan, 35, and Murray Sharan, 33, beat Uruguayan Ariel Behar and Kazakh Galina Voskoboeva 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 in a match that had a lengthy interruption
By Saurabh Singh | AITA India’s top-ranked doubles specialists Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan have reached the quarter-finals €609,065 ATP 250 event, Viking International Eastbourne being held in Eastbourne, Great Britain. The all Indian pairing of Bopanna-Sharan came on top in straight sets 7-5, 6-3 against the local wild card entrants Alastair Gray and Luke Johnson in their Round of
By Saurabh Singh | AITA The all Indian pairing of Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan displayed another spirited performance together and knocked out tournament’s second seeded Polish-French doubles team of Lukasz Kubot and Eduoard Roger-Vasselin today in the second round of Noventi Open which is being played at Halle, Germany. During their second round win against the second seeds, the
Veteran Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna and his Croatian partner Franko Skugor advanced to the pre-quarterfinals of the French Open with a straight set win over Americans Frances Tiafo and Nicholas Monroe on Thursday. The unseeded Bopanna and Skugor prevailed 6-4, 7-5 in the second round match that lasted one hour and 20 minutes. The 41-year-old Bopanna, ranked 40 in
Seeded number one in the doubles draw, the all Indian pairing of Purav Raja and Ramkumar Ramanthan started off their challenge with a comfortable straight sets win, 6-4, 6-0, over Spain’s David Marrero and Serbia’s Nenad Zimonjic at the Ferrero Challenger Open in Alicante, Spain yesterday. Playing against lower ranked wild card entrants Marrero and Zimonjic, the Indians took control