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LONDON: Andy Murray says he has "huge motivation" to be a member of Great Britain's Davis Cup team despite questioning whether he deserved his place after his early exit at the US Open.
Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna and his Australia partner Matthew Ebden will take on the French pair of Nicholas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the US Open men's doubles semi-finals on Thursday. In the quarterfinals, Bopanna and Ebden saved seven set points in first set before outclassing Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow of the USA. Bopanna and Ebden had reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon Championships where they had lost to Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski. Bopanna now has the opportunity to secure a place in a Grand Slam men's doubles final for the second time in his career. Interestingly, it was in the US Open only when Bopanna competed in his maiden Major final way back in 2010.
Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden saved seven set points in the opening set before downing Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow to move to the US Open men's doubles semifinals, their second straight last-four appearance in Grand Slams this year. The sixth seeded Indo-Australian pair beat the American combo 7-6 (10) 6-1 in the quarterfinals of the hard court major. Bopanna and Ebden had reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon Championships where they had lost to Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski.
India's Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden advanced to the men's doubles quarterfinals at the US Open with a hard-fought three-set win over Julian Cash and Henry Patten. The sixth seeded Indo-Australian pair won 6-4, 6-7(5), 7-6(10-6) against the British duo of Cash and Patten after toiling hard for two hours 22 minutes in the third round at the Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday. Bopanna and Ebden, who had reached the Wimbledon semifinals earlier this year, hit 13 aces and won 81 per cent of their first-serve points.
Davis Cup team captain Leon Smith made a surprise appearance at a children’s coaching session at The Northern Tennis Club in West Didsbury to announce his squad to represent Great Britain for next month’s hotly-anticipated global showpiece at Manchester’s AO Arena.
Andy Murray is back in the Great Britain Davis Cup team for next month's matches against Australia, France and Switzerland. Former Wimbledon champion Murray was left out of Britain's 3-1 qualifying round win against Colombia on clay in February. British captain Leon Smith suggested the surface was not conducive for Murray, who had at the time played just three matches on clay since 2017.
LONDON: Centre Court fans celebrated a home champion as Neal Skupski and Dutch partner Wesley Koolhof won the Wimbledon men's doubles title with a 6-4 6-4 win against Spain-Argentina duo Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos on Saturday (Jul 15).