Wimbledon 2025: Bhambri-Galloway pair reaches second round, Bopanna-Gille duo knocked out
Bhambri and Galloway, seeded 16th, took down the French-Monagasque pair of Manuel Guinard and Romain Arneodo 7-6(8), 6-4 in an hour and 49 minutes. The Indo-American duo came to The Championships after finishing as runner-up at the Mallorca Open.
The Bhambri-Galloway pair will be up against the winner of the match between the Dutch combination of Robin Haase and Jean-Julien Rojer and American Marcos Giron and Nuno Borges of Portugal in the next round.
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Bopanna and Gille lost 6-3, 6-4 to the third-seeded German pair of Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz in an hour and four minutes.
Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli and his Colombian partner Nicolas Barrientos saved four match points before defeating Alexandre Muller of France and Belgium's David Goffin 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(11). Their second-round match will be against either the sixth-seeded British pair of Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski or wildcards Joshua Paris and Charles Broom.
N Sriram Balaji, another Indian, and his Mexican partner Miguel Reyes-Varela will be in action in the men's doubles on Thursday and will take on Aleksandar Kovacevic and Learner Tien in the first round.
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