Paris-bound Rohan Bopanna and Sumit Nagal among 4 players competing in doubles at Wimbledon 2024

Rohan Bopanna, Sumit Nagal, N. Sriram Balaji, and Yuki Bhambri are the four Indians who will be in action in the men’s doubles main draw of Wimbledon 2024, scheduled to start on July 1 in London. Paris Olympics 2024-bound Rohan Bopanna will partner Matthew Ebden, while another Paris-bound athlete Sumit Nagal will pair up with Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic.

On the other hand, Yuki Bhambri will compete alongside France’s Albano Olivetti. Meanwhile, Balaji will partner local lad Luke Johnson.

It’s worth noting that Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden reached the semi-finals last year, where they lost 7-5, 6-4 to eventual winners, Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands and Great Britain’s Neal Skupski.

Notably, the All India Tennis Association (AITA) on June 13 confirmed that Balaji will be Bopanna’s partner in the men’s doubles event at the Paris Summer Games.

This will be maiden Wimbledon outing for Sumit Nagal

Sumit Nagal recently achieved a new career-high ranking of 71 in the latest ATP Rankings to emerge as the joint-fourth highest-ranked Indian male tennis player ever since the introduction of the computerized system of rankings in 1973.

Nagal has been in good form of late. After winning the Heilbronn Challenger, he finished as the runner-up at an ATP Challenger event in Perugia. His efforts saw him move up six spots to edge past Leander Paes and join Sashi Menon on the all-time list of ATP Rankings.

For Nagal, it will be his maiden appearance at Wimbledon this year.

On the other hand, N Sriram Balaji earlier competed in Wimbledon in 2018. However, he made an exit from the second round after losing to Ben McLachlan from Japan and Jan-Lennard Struff from Germany in the men’s doubles event.

Moving forward, Yuki Bhambri, who is competing currently in Halle Open 2024, also took part in Wimbledon 2018 but made an exit in the opening round after losing against Jared Donaldson from America.