Miami, 28 Mar: India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Canadian partner Denis Shapovalov stunned the top-seeded Croatian pair of Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic in straight sets to enter men’s doubles quarter-finals at the Miami Open tennis tournament.
The unseeded Indo-Canadian pair surprised Mektic and Pavic 6-3, 7-6(3) in second-round doubles match on Sunday.
Bopanna and Shapovalov will now face the sixth-seeded pair of Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands and Great Britain’s Neal Skupski for a place in the semi-finals.
Koolhof and Skupski defeated the Spanish-Italian combination of Pedro Martinez and Lorenzo Sonego 6-3, 7-6(8) in the second round.
Bopanna and Shapovalov earlier registered a fighting 6-7(5), 6-2, 10-3 win over Marceloa Avrevalo of El Salvador and Jean-Juien Rojer of Netherlands in the opening round of the ATP Masters 1000 event. (PTI)