London: India’s Yuki Bhambri and his American partner Robert Galloway progressed to the second round of the men’s doubles event at Wimbledon with a straight-sets win over Romain Arneodo of Monaco and Manuel Guinard of France here on Wednesday.
The 16th-seeded Indo-American pair defeated Arneodo and Guinard 7-6(8) 6-4 in a first-round match that lasted one hour and 49 minutes.
Yuki and Galloway will next take on the winner of the match between the Dutch combination of Robin Haase and Jean-Julien Rojer and American Marcos Giron and Nuno Borges of Portugal in the next round.
Bhambri and Galloway will next face the winner of the match between Robin Haase & Jean-Julien Rojer and Nuno Borges and Marcus Giron.
Bhambri will also pair up with China’s Xinyu Jiang as they face the American duo of Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Christian Harrison in the first round of mixed doubles.
Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli and Colombia’s Nicolas Barrientos had to fight hard in their first round match. The Indo-Colombian duo saved four match points before beating France’s Alexandre Muller and Belgium’s David Goffin 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (11).
In the second round, they will face the winner of the clash between Joe Salisbury & Neal Skupski and Charles Broom & Joshua Paris.
India’s N Sriram Balaji will be in action on Thursday, July 3, as he partners Mexico’s Miguel Reyes-Varela in their Round 1 match against Aleksandar Kovacevic and Learner Tien.
