Rohan Bopanna and his Romanian partner Florin Mergea started their campaign at the season-ending ATP World Tour Finale with a bang, beating top seeds and defending champions Bob and Mike Bryan in straight sets in their men’s doubles opening rubber of Group A.
Making their debut as a team, the eighth seeded Indo-Romanian pair took an hour to register a 6-4, 6-3 win over the legendary American pair.
In opening set , both the pairs got a number of break points to go neck-and-neck before Bopanna held on in to grab the initial advantage.
Both the teams got five breakpoints each but the Indo-Romanian pair manged to convert three as compared to two by their opponents.
Federer beats Berdych
In other match, Roger Federer beat Tomas Berdych 6-4, 6-2.
murray beats ferrer
Andy Murray won his opening match at the ATP finals on Monday, playing on an indoor hard court less than two weeks before he will have to switch to indoor clay for the Davis Cup final.
Murray beat David Ferrer 6-4, 6-4 at the O2 Arena, overcoming an early break in the second set.