Yuki Bhambri edges into second round of mixed doubles

However, Bhambri and Xinyu bounced back in style as they held on to their serves for the remainder of the set and broke the American team’s service games three times in a row to take the first set.

The second set began on a similar note with Bhambri-Xinyu dropping their serve in the second game to trail 3-0 again.

The Indo-Chinese duo narrowly saved themselves from going 4-0 up by saving a break point in the fourth game but it proved to be their only high point in the set as they lost it by a 6-1 margin.

Faced with a deciding set, both teams brought their A game and didn’t drop a single serve throughout, forcing a tiebreaker, which the Indo-Chinese pair won 10-6.

Bhambri is the only Indian tennis player in the mixed doubles draw at the penultimate Grand Slam of the year.

Yuki Bhambri and his American partner Robert Galloway also made the second round of the men’s doubles competition on Wednesday and are due to play Portugal’s Nuno Borges and the USA’s Marcos Giron on Saturday.

India’s N Sriram Balaji and Rithvik Bollipalli will also be in action in the second round of the men’s doubles competition, albeit with different partners.

Rohan Bopanna and his Belgian partner Sander Gillé, however, bowed out in the opening round itself after going down to the third-seeded German duo of Tim Pütz and Kevin Krawietz.

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