Bopanna and Ebden advance to Wimbledon second round.
In one hour and eleven minutes of play on Wednesday, bopanna and Ebden overcame their Dutch opponents 7-5, 6-4 despite rain delays.
London: Rohan Bopanna of India and Matthew Ebden of Australia advanced to the second round of the Wimbledon men's doubles competition by easily defeating Robin Haas and Sander Arends.
In a rain-shortened encounter on Wednesday, Bopanna and Matthew Ebden easily defeated their Dutch opponents 7-5, 6-4 in 1 hour and 11 minutes.
In the second round, the reigning Australian Open champions, ranked second, will take against Hendrik Jebens and Constantin Frantzen of Germany.
Last year, the Indo-Australian duo advanced to the third Grand Slam of the season's semifinals.
Pedro Martinez and Jaume Munar of Spain defeated India's Sumit Nagal and his Serbian partner Dusan Lajovic in the opening round earlier on Wednesday.
In one hour and seven minutes, Martinez and Munar prevailed 6-2, 6-2.
N Sriram Balaji and Yuki Bhambri will represent India once again in the men's doubles first round later on Thursday.
Balaji will compete against fourth-seeded Mate Pavic of Serbia and Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador and Luke Johnson of the United Kingdom.
However, Bhambri and Albano Olivetti of France will
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