Rohan Bopanna-Edouard Roger-Vasselin knocked out of Miami Open tennis tournament

Rohan Bopanna-Eduard Roger-Vasselin were defeated by Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey in their second round encounter in the Miami Open tennis tournament on Sunday.

Indian tennis ace Rohan Bopanna and his French partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin suffered a major blow as they crashed out of the Miami Open in the second round of the men’s doubles event in Florida on Monday.

Rohan Bopanna of India (L) and Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France crashed out of the Miami Open on Sunday. (Getty Images)

The Indo-French duo failed to replicate their opening-round performance and slump to a 6-7 (5-7), 2-6 defeat at the hands of the American pair of Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey in a round-of-16 clash.

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With the win, Johnson and Querrey will now lock horns with the winner of another last-16 encounter between the South Korean-Canadian team of Hyeon Chung-Denis Shapovalov and the Colombian pair of Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah.

Earlier, Bopanna and Roger-Vasselin bounced back from a set down to register a brilliant 4-6, 6-2, 14-12 win over the duo of France’s Adrian Mannarino and Russia’s Daniil Medvedev in the opening round of the men’s doubles event.