MADRID: Playing their fourth final of this season, Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden lost a chance to capture their second ATP Masters title together following a 3-6, 6-3, 3-10 defeat to Russian pair Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov in the ATP 1000 Madrid Open doubles final on Saturday.
In a tricky title clash against two singles specialists at the top of their individual games — Rublev is ranked 6th in singles and Khachanov 12th — the Indian-Aussie pair was blown away in the match tie-break where it lost the first six points. The seventh seeds had forced the 10-point shootoff with a break in the fourth game of the second set after losing the first. Agencies
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