Heath Ebden and Rohan Bopanna advance to the Miami Open semifinals

Indian tennis robust Rohan Bopanna and his Australian colleague Matthew Ebden progressed to their third men’s pairs semi-final this year, overcoming Dutchman Sem Verbeek and Aussie John-Patrick Smith at the Miami Open.

Indian tennis is sturdy. Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden progressed to their third men’s pairs semi-final this year, overcoming Dutchman Sem Verbeek and Aussie John-Patrick Smith at the Miami Open. The team, which had won the Australian Open recently, conquered a few natural mistakes in the main set to win the tiring quarterfinal 3-6, 7-6, (4), 10-7. The triumph for the 44-year-old Bopanna, presently positioned No. 2 on the planet, will assist him with remaining in the top-10 in the ATP duplicates rankings and guarantee direct capability for the Paris Olympics in July-August.

The cutoff date for rankings to be considered for direct Paris capability is June 10.

The Bopanna-Ebden pair, cultivated No. 1 here, didn’t partake in a predominant first and second-serve rate yet concocted breaks at significant crossroads in the second set to bring the match into the sudden death round prior to winning it and drawing level.

Bopanna, who won his lady huge home run at the Australian Open this year, had accomplished a vocation high world No. 1 positioning following the achievement, but has slipped to second detect after a quarterfinal misfortune at the Dubai Titles and a series of 32 exits at the Indian Wells Experts.

The Indo-Australian pair will meet the victors of the match between Marcel Granollers (Spain)/Horacio Zeballos (Argentina) and Lloyd Glasspool (UK)/Jean-Julien Rojer (Netherlands) in the last four.

Bopanna and Ebden had likewise arrived at the elimination round of the Adelaide Open in January this year and made the title round prior to losing to Rajeev Slam (USA) and Joe Salisbury (UK).

The American-English team, however, won’t meet the Indian-Australian pair in the elimination rounds here after they lost in the quarterfinals.