Bopanna-Mergea lose in Madrid Open final

Amlan Majumdar
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Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea lost to 3rd seeded pair of Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau 4-6, 6-7 in the final of the Mutua Madrid Open on Sunday. This is the second time the Dutch-Romanian pair have defeated Bopanna-Mergea in a final after dominating them in the ATP World Tour Finals last year.

Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea, who won the Madrid Open back in 2015, have been in a poor run since the turn of the year. They have reached just one final in 2016 so far—at the Sydney International in January. Ahead of the upcoming French Open, the pair has shown signs of returning to form in Madrid in the past one week.

However, they failed to cross the final hurdle once again. Rojer and Tecau won the first set comfortably by 6-4, but the Indo-Romanian pair put up a fight in the second. The set went to a tie-breaker at 6-6, which, which Rojer-Tecau won 7-5, and with it the title.

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