Paes, Bopanna knocked out in opening round of China Open

TIL Desk Sports/India’s campaign folded at the China Open in the opening round with both Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna crashing out of the men’s doubles events along with their respective partners, in Beijing on Monday.

Seeded third, Bopanna and his Canadian partner Daniel Nestor were shocked by Spanish duo of Rafael Nadal and Pablo Carreno Busta in straight sets, losing 6-7(3), 4-6.

There was more heartbreak stored for India later in the day when veteran Paes and Germany’s Andre Begemann were shown the door by American-Australian duo of Jack Sock and Bernard Tomic.

Wildcard entrants, Paes and Begemann fought hard before going down 6-3, 5-7, 7-10 in super tie-breaker of the match in the $4,164,780 ATP 500 event.