{"id":182304,"date":"2022-01-23T00:12:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T18:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=182304"},"modified":"2022-01-23T00:12:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T18:42:02","slug":"australian-open-2022-rohan-bopanna-darija-jurak-lose-mixed-doubles-first-round-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/01\/23\/australian-open-2022-rohan-bopanna-darija-jurak-lose-mixed-doubles-first-round-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2022: Rohan Bopanna-Darija Jurak lose mixed doubles first-round match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Melbourne, Jan 22 (PTI): India&#8217;s Rohan Bopanna and his Croatian partner Darija Jurak Schreiber made a first-round exit from the Australian Open mixed doubles tennis event after losing to Kazakhstan&#8217;s Andrey Golubev and Ukraine&#8217;s Lyudmyla Kichenok here on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bopanna-Schreiber duo lost 6-1 4-6 9-11 in one hour and three minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bopanna and Schrieber came out with intent and won the first set 6-1 after making just one unforced error while converting two of the three breakpoints.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Golubev-Kichenok came back strong and took a 4-2 lead in the second set.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bopanna and Schrieber were broken thrice in the second set with the Indian dropping serve for the first time to concede a 2-4 lead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bopanna and Schrieber bagged the next two games but Golubev and Kichenok took the set 6-4, taking the match into the super tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bopanna and Schrieber were leading 9-6 in the decider but Golubev and Kichenok sealed it in their favour after saving three match points and converting their own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sania Mirza, who progressed to the mixed doubles second round with her American partner Rajeev Ram, is the only Indian remaining in fray in the season&#8217;s first Grand Slam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Jan 22 (PTI): India&#8217;s Rohan Bopanna and his Croatian partner Darija Jurak Schreiber made a first-round exit from the Australian Open mixed doubles tennis event after losing to Kazakhstan&#8217;s Andrey Golubev and Ukraine&#8217;s Lyudmyla Kichenok here on Saturday. The Bopanna-Schreiber duo lost 6-1 4-6 9-11 in one hour and three minutes. Bopanna and Schrieber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-182304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}