BOPANNA IN QUARTERS

Rohan Bopanna and Croatian partner Ivan Dodig produced a spirited performance as they bounced back from a set down to progress through to the quarterfinals of the Aegon Championships.

After comfortably winning the first set, the Indo-Croatian pair went down in the second set before they rebounded strongly to register a 6-3, 6-7, 10-7 win over the Australian-American team of Thanasi Kokkinakis and Kyle Edmund in a thrilling opening-round clash at the Queen’s Club.

Bopanna and Dodig will now lock horns with the FinnishAustralian duo Henri Kontinen and John Peers.

Leander Paes and Canada’s Adil Shamasdin survived an early scare against Australian duo of John-Patrick Smith and Matt Reid to book their place in last-eight.

Paes and Shamsdin rebounded strongly from their first-set defeat to post a 4-6, 6-3, 12-10 win over the Australians in their opening round of the $127,000 grass court event

They will next face Belarus’ Andrei Vasilevski and Chile’s Hans Podlipnik-Castillo.