Gabriela Dabrowski News
The seventh-seeded pair who had bagged the Frech Open title earlier this year, took down their opponents in the first set winning 6-4, but fell in the consecutive two struggling for around an hour before succumbing down to Chan and Venus on Court 17 at the Flushing Meadows.
Bopanna won his first ever Major title with Gabriela Dabrowski, who became the first Canadian woman to win a Grand Slam trophy.
Bopanna thus became only the fourth Indian to win a Grand Slam title. The legendary Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza have clinched Grand Slam titles.
The legendary Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza are the only Indians to have clinched Grand Slam titles.
Fourteen-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal will take on compatriot Pablo Carreno Busta, while defending champion and world number two Novak Djokovic will face sixth seed Dominic Thiem for a place in the semi-finals.
With today's loss, Sania's campaign ended in the tournament. She and her Kazakh partner Yaroslava Shvedova had crashed out of the women's doubles event in the opening round.
The Indo-Canadian pair notched up an easy 6-0, 6-1 win over the Australian team of Jessica Moore and Matt Reid in a one-sided opening round clash that lasted just 39 minutes.
The Indo-Canadian combo sent down as many as five aces and converted five break points out of the seven chances that came their way to finish off the match that lasted just 39 minutes.
In the next match Sania could face Leander Paes and Martina Hingis, who are playing their quarterfinal against Samantha Stosur and Sam Groth.
One Indian is now certain to feature in the semifinals and if Leander Paes manages to win his quarterfinal, the semifinal will again feature two Indians.
The final score of a three-set affair read 6-4, 5-7, 10-3 in favour of Bopanna and Dabrowski.
As Bopanna and Leander Paes exit from Open, Mirza still remains in the contention in the women's doubles partnering Barbora Strycova.
Bopanna and Dabrowski have now set up a clash against the Polish- Taiwanese team of Lukasz Kubot and Yung-Jan Chan.
Seventh seeds Sania Mirza and her Czech partner Barbora Krejcikova defeated unseeded American-Japanese pair of Nicole Gibbs and Nao Hibino 6-4,7-5 in a third round match.
Sania Mirza is the lone surviving Indian in the tournament.
Loading...