The Indian tennis pair of Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni notched up a straight-set win over France’s Arthur Rinderknech and Enzo Couacaud in males’s doubles to make a great begin to their French Open marketing campaign in Paris on Wednesday. Yuki and Saketh, who had received the Bangkok Open Challenger in January this yr, took 64 minutes to get the higher of Arthur and Enzo 6-3 6-2 of their opening match.

However, Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna and his Australian accomplice Matthew Ebden could not cross the opening hurdle, happening 5-7 6-7 (5-7) to French mixture of Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul within the males’s doubles competitors.

The India-Australian pair, who had received the BNP Paribas Open, Qatar Open and reached the finals of Madrid Open this yr, saved 5 match factors earlier than the French duo prevailed.

It was additionally the tip of highway for N Sriram Balaji and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan after they went down 3-6 4-6 to Belarus’ Ilya Ivashka and Alexei Popyrin of Australia of their opener.