Bopanna, Raja bow out of Wimbledon

London July 7 (IANS) Indian tennis players Rohan Bopanna and Purav Raja were beaten by their opponents in their respective categories and bowed out of the Wimbledon here on Friday.

In the men s doubles category the eighth seed pair of Bopanna and his French partner Édouard Roger-Vasselin never looked in the contention as the British pair of Neal Skupski and Ken Skupski outplayed the Indo-French pair 7-6 6-3 6-7 6-3.

In other match Purav Raja and Divij Sharan were also beaten by Rajeev Ram of America and Raven Klaasen of South Africa in a hard fought battle. The game went to the tie breaker in which the Ram and Klaasen proved superior against the Indian pair to clinch the issue 6-3 6-4 4-6 6-7 (10-8).

Earlier on Thursday Bopanna and Roger-Vasselin edged past German pair of Dustin Brown and Mischa Zverev 6-3 7-6 6-4 to advance while Purav Raja and Divij Sharan defeated the British-Portuguese pair of Kyle Edmunds and Joao Sousa 7-6(2) 3-6 6-4 7-6(8).

--IANS
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