Veteran Indian tennis participant Rohan Bopanna and his Australian associate Matthew Ebden made a quarterfinal exit from the Paris Masters after struggling a hard-fought defeat within the males’s doubles contest in  Paris. The third seeded Indo-Australian duo toiled for one hour 46 minutes earlier than happening 6-7, 5-7 to the Dutch-Croatian combo of Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektic on the ATP 1000 occasion on Friday. There was little separating the 2 pairs with the primary set going into tiebreaker. Bopanna and Ebden had a just a few probabilities however Koolhof and Mektic saved set factors to win the tiebreak and take a 1-0 lead.

The second set was additionally intently effectively contested, however Bopanna and Ebden supplied Koolhof and Mektic with an important break within the twelfth sport following a double fault.

Earlier this week, Bopanna and Ebden had clinched a spot within the prestigious season-ending ATP Finals.

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