India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi crashed out in straight sets from the doubles quarter-final of the Wimbledon here on Wednesday.
Bopanna and Qureshi lost 4-6, 6-7 (3), 2-6 to Juergen Melzer of Austria and Germany’s Philipp Petzschner.
Qureshi had become the first Pakistani player to reach the last eight of any Grand Slam event.The first two sets witnessed close-fought battle with both the pairs holding their serve, apart from the break in the very first game by the European pair, while the second set went into a tie-break.
However, the Indo-Pak duo were nowhere in the competition in the third set as Bopanna dropped his serve twice — in the third and seventh games — to hand over the match to their rivals in an hour and 37 minutes. — PTI