Wimbledon 2025: Bollipalli-Barrientos pair prevails in opener

LONDON: India’s Rithvik Bollipalli and Colombia’s Nicolas Barrientos saved four match points in their Wimbledon men’s doubles first-round clash to walk away winners against the BelgianFrench pairing of David Goffin and Alexandre Muller. Bollipalli punctuated the match with the pair’s seventh ace after two hours and 19 minutes of play.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!The Indo-Colombian duo rode on the support of the Indian spectators gathered around Court 8 making for a carnival atmosphere, and fought back from 6-9 in the super tie-break. They then closed out the match on their second match point. Bollipalli and Barrientos played the bigger game, striking 14 winners to wrap-up a 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (11) win.In another first-round match, the 16th seeds in the men’s doubles draw, India’s Yuki Bhambri and American Robert Galloway, came up with a strong serving performance to score a straight-set win over Romain Arneodo and Manuel Guinard.Bhambri and Galloway, playing on Court No.5, punched out a 7-6 (8), 6-4 win in one-hour 48-minutes.
Meanwhile, Rohan Bopanna and Belgian Sander Gille went down to the third seeds Germany’s Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz 6-3, 6-4 in 64 minutes.