Bopanna-Ebden pair exit in semi-finals

Rohan Bopanna (left) and Matthew Ebden. Pic/Getty Images

India's Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden crashed out of the French Open after going down to Italian pair of Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori in the semi-finals here on Thursday.

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The second seeded Indo-Australian pair lost 5-7, 6-2, 2-6 to the eleventh seeded Italians. The Australian Open winning pair overcame the challenge posed by Brazilians Marcelo Zormann and Orlando Luz 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 in the opening round.

They followed that triumph with a win over the Indo-Italian pair of N Sriram Balaji and Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela 6-7 [2-7], 6-3, 7-6 [10-8]) in the following round. In the quarter-finals, Bopanna and his partner got the better of the Belgian duo of Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen 7-6 [7-3], 5-7, 6-1.

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