Bopanna-Kubot advance, Paes-Peers lose in Shanghai Masters
It what turned out to be a mixed day for the Indian players at the ATP Shanghai Masters tennis, eight-seeded Rohan Bopanna and his Polish partner Lukasz Kubot advanced to the quarterfinals, while veteran Leander Paes and Australian John Peers went down in the second round.
Bopanna and Kubot defeated Briton Dominic Inglot and Swede Robert Lindstedt 6-3, 7-6 (4) in 80 minutes. The Indo-Polish pair, who got a bye in the first round, broke their opponents in the fourth game to win the opening set comfortably. The second set ran on serve, and Bopanna-Kubot won the tie-breaker to seal the match.
Paes and Peers succumbed to Daniel Nestor of Canada and Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin for the second time in two weeks, following their first round exist at the China Open.
The Indo-OZ pair lost 3-6, 1-6 in 45 minutes, after being broken in the third and ninth games of the opening set, and in the fourth and seventh of the second.
