Bopanna-Ramkumar duo enters doubles semis, Yuki crashes out of Tata Open

Rohan Bopanna and Ramkumar Ramanathan advanced to the doubles semi-finals, but it was curtains for Yuki Bhambri in singles second round at the 2022 Tata Open Maharashtra at the Balewadi Stadium on Thursday. Bopanna and Ramkumar defeated Austrian-Czech duo of Alexander Erler and Czech Jiri Vesely 7-6(7-3), 7-6(7-4) in the quarterfinals. Bopanna and Ramkumar, playing their second ATP event together at the fourth edition of South Asia's only ATP 250 tournament, will now meet Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul.

The French duo entered the last four round with a hard-fought win against Federico Gaio and Lorenzo Musetti 4-6, 6-3, 10-2. Another Indian pair of N Sriram Balaji and Vishnu Vardhan will also be seen in the semifinals after their opponents, Gianluca Mager and Emil Ruusuvuori withdrew from the last-eight match due to an injury to the former. The Indian duo, which entered the main draw as an alternate pair, defeated compatriots Arjun Kadhe and Purav Raja 6-1, 6-4 in the opening round played late on Wednesday night.

However, it was curtains for comeback man Yuki as he suffered a 3-6, 2-6 defeat against eight seed Stefano Travaglia of Australia in the singles second round. Earlier in the day, Sweden's Elias Ymer stunned top-seed and world no 15 Aslan Karatsev of Russia in straight sets to storm into the singles quarterfinals. Ymer handed Karatsev a shocking 6-2, 7-6(7-3) defeat in a second round match that lasted for one hour and 36 minutes.