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Time of India
7 hours ago
- Sport
- Time of India
Wimbledon 2025: Bollipalli-Barrientos pair prevails in opener
LONDON: India's Rithvik Bollipalli and Colombia's Nicolas Barrientos saved four match points in their men's doubles first-round clash to walk away winners against the BelgianFrench pairing of David Goffin and Alexandre Muller. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Bollipalli punctuated the match with the pair's seventh ace after two hours and 19 minutes of play. Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. The Indo-Colombian duo rode on the support of the Indian spectators gathered around Court 8 making for a carnival atmosphere, and fought back from 6-9 in the super tie-break. They then closed out the match on their second match point. Bollipalli and Barrientos played the bigger game, striking 14 winners to wrap-up a 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (11) win. In another first-round match, the 16th seeds in the men's doubles draw, India's Yuki Bhambri and American Robert Galloway, came up with a strong serving performance to score a straight-set win over Romain Arneodo and Manuel Guinard. Bhambri and Galloway, playing on Court No.5, punched out a 7-6 (8), 6-4 win in one-hour 48-minutes. Meanwhile, and Belgian Sander Gille went down to the third seeds Germany's Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz 6-3, 6-4 in 64 minutes.
India Today
17 hours ago
- Sport
- India Today
Wimbledon: Rohan Bopanna crashes out, Yuki Bhambri, Rithvik Bollipalli advance
India's Rohan Bopanna and Sander Gille of Belgium crashed out of the Wimbledon 2025 men's doubles. On Wednesday, July 2, Bopanna and Galloway lost in straight sets to Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz. It took the third-seeded German pair an hour and four minutes to win the match 6-3, 6-4. Yuki Bhambri and Robert Galloway, in the meantime, made their way through to the second round of the men's doubles. They defeated Manuel Guinard and Romain Arneodo, winning the first-round match 7-6 (8), 6-4 in an hour and 49 minutes. advertisementWimbledon 2025 Day 3 Updates Bhambri and Galloway will next face the winner of the match between Robin Haase & Jean-Julien Rojer and Nuno Borges and Marcus will also pair up with China's Xinyu Jiang as they face the American duo of Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Christian Harrison in the first round of mixed doubles. Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli and Colombia's Nicolas Barrientos had to fight hard in their first round match. The Indo-Colombian duo saved four match points before beating France's Alexandre Muller and Belgium's David Goffin 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (11).In the second round, they will face the winner of the clash between Joe Salisbury & Neal Skupski and Charles Broom & Joshua Paris. India's N Sriram Balaji will be in action on Thursday, July 3, as he partners Mexico's Miguel Reyes-Varela in their Round 1 match against Aleksandar Kovacevic and Learner Tien. - Ends
