Leander Paes And Bopanna Drawn For Clash in Wimbledon Pre-Quarters
Leander Paes partnering Marcin Matkowski has been drawn in the top half and may face Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea in the pre-quarter-finals
Highlights
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Paes/Matkowski may face Bopanna/Mergea in Wimbledon pre-quarters
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Paes and Bopanna will represent India in men's doubles at 2016 Olympics
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Leander Paes recently won the French Open mixed doubles title
Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna, who will represent India at the Rio Olympics as a team, may clash against each other at the Wimbledon pre-quarterfinals as they have been drawn in the top half of the draw at the men's doubles event.
Bopanna and his Romanian partner Florin Mergea, seeded sixth, open their campaign against Croatian pair Marin Draganja and Nikola Mektic.
Paes and Polish teammate Marcin Matkowski are up against Taipei's Yen-Hsun Lu and Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic.
Paes and Bopanna are the only Indians competing in the men's events at the grass court Grand Slam as Ramkumar Ramanathan and Saketh Myneni had lost in the singles qualifiers while the pair of Purav Raja and Divij Sharan had lost in the doubles qualifying event.
In the women's doubles, top seeds Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis have German team of Anna-Lena Friedsam and Laura Siegmund as their first round opponents.