Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna’s search to search for a accomplice for the boys’s doubles competitors on the Australian Open ended on Saturday as he tied up with Japan’s Ben McLachlan for the season’s first Grand Slam.
Bopanna had initially paired with Joao Sousa however the Portuguese contracted coronavirus virus, forcing them to tug out.
Bopanna, who served a 14-day onerous quarantine after arriving in Melbourne on January 16, knowledgeable that Ben and he had been in the identical boat.
“I got lucky there. Unfortunately Ben’s partner Raven Klassen had to pull out and Ben was looking for a partner, so we finally decided to commit and sign up together. I am looking forward to see how it goes. Definitely was not easy to find partners, happy to have found one,” Bopanna advised PTI.
Australian Open will start on February 8 underneath strict COVID-19 protocols.
Apart from Bopanna, India may have Divij Sharan within the males’s doubles occasion whereas Sumit Nagal will compete within the males’s singles on a wild card.
Ankita Raina is ready to search out out if she will get ‘lucky loser’ spot within the girls’s singles.
