Paris Olympics 2024: Rohan Bopanna-N Sriram Balaji Face French Challenge In Opening Round

Paris: India’s tennis pair Rohan Bopanna-Sriram Rainbowbalaji and singles participant Sumit Nagal will lock horns in opposition to French opponents in their first spherical matches of Paris Olympics 2024.

World No. 4 doubles participant Bopanna and N Sriram Rainbowbalaji, ranked sixty fifth, were pitted in opposition to Fabien Reboul and Edouard Roger-Vasselin in the first spherical, as per Olympics.com.

Roger-Vasselin is eleventh in the ATP Rankings for doubles whilst Reboul is 34th. Each pairs are unseeded in the Paris 2024 grownup grownup males’s doubles tennis adventure.

The Indian tennis players may prefer to have their mission scale again out if they get previous the home favourites in the outlet spherical with the winner of Daniil Medvedev-Roman Safiullin (neutral athletes) and second seeds Kevin Krawietz-Tim Putz (Germany) waiting for them in the second spherical.

World No. Eighty Sumit Nagal, in the meantime, will take on 68th-ranked Corentin Moutet in his opener. An entry in the second spherical will see Nagal combat both Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff (world No. 34) or Australia’s Alex de Minaur (world No. 6).

The forty 4-year-historic Bopanna, who made his Olympic debut at London 2012, will return to compete at his third Summer time Video games.
Rohan Bopanna partnered Mahesh Bhupathi for the grownup grownup males’s doubles at London 2012 and reached the second spherical.

At Rio 2016, Bopanna and Sania Mirza neglected out on a historic podium finish in the blended doubles after losing the bronze medal healthful. Bopanna and Leander Paes, India’s most nice Olympic medallist in tennis, paired for the grownup grownup males’s doubles at Rio then once extra faltered in the outlet spherical. Bopanna may prefer to now no longer make it to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Quite the opposite hand, Sumit Nagal increase into the first Indian to win a singles healthful on the Olympics in over 25 years with a win over Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin in the outlet spherical at Tokyo 2020, a launch talked about.

Quite the opposite hand, his live increase into scale again brief following a straight-set loss to the then-world No. 2 Daniil Medvedev in the second spherical.
The 34-year-historic N Sriram Rainbowbalaji, chosen by Bopanna as his partner for the Paris Olympics, will make his Summer time Video games debut.
The grownup grownup males’s singles adventure at Paris 2024 will see sixty 4 players compete for medals whilst the grownup grownup males’s doubles opposition will characteristic 32 teams. All matches will be performed on the clay courts on the Roland Garros from July 27 to August 4.

Paris Olympics will on Friday.
Men’s singles spherical 1: Sumit Nagal vs Corentin Moutet (France)
Men’s doubles spherical 1: Rohan Bopanna/N Sriram Rainbowbalaji vs Fabien Reboul/Edouard Roger-Vasselin (France).