{"id":33195,"date":"2018-06-05T12:20:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T12:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=33195"},"modified":"2018-06-05T12:20:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T12:20:28","slug":"french-open-bopanna-vasselin-to-play-for-the-semi-final-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/french-open-bopanna-vasselin-to-play-for-the-semi-final-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open: Bopanna-Vasselin to play for the semi-final spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian tennis ace Rohan Bopanna and his French partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin will look to secure their place in the semi-finals of the French Open when they play their last-eight clash of the men&#8217;s doubles event on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 13th seeded Indo-French pair will face eighth-seeded team of Austria&#8217;s Alexander Peya and Croatia&#8217;s Nikola Mektic in the quarter-final clash at Roland-Garros.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Bopanna and Roger-Vasselin bounced back strongly to knock out the top-seeded Marcelo Melo and Lukasz Kubot 6-4, 7-6(1) in a thrilling last-16 clash that lasted an hour and 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Bopanna and Roger-Vasselin had earlier also made it to the semi-finals in Monte Carlo while the pair also did not drop a set on their way to the third round of the French Open.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian tennis star, who continued to lead for India in rankings for men&#8217;s doubles at the 19th place, had earlier won his maiden Grand Slam title at the French Open last year in the mixed doubles with Canadian Gabriela Dabrowski.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former world number and Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic will also aim to seal last-four spot when he faces Marco Cecchinato of Italy in their women&#8217;s singles event later.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian tennis ace Rohan Bopanna and his French partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin will look to secure their place in the semi-finals of the French Open when they play their last-eight clash of the men&#8217;s doubles event on Tuesday. The 13th seeded Indo-French pair will face eighth-seeded team of Austria&#8217;s Alexander Peya and Croatia&#8217;s Nikola Mektic in [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33197,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33195\/revisions\/33197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}