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Balaji and Demoliner Shine at French Open, Reach Quarterfinals<\/strong><\/p>\n In an exciting turn of events at the French Open, India\u2019s N. Sriram Balaji and Brazil\u2019s Marcelo Demoliner have caused a stir by defeating the sixth-seeded German duo of Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz to advance to the men\u2019s doubles quarterfinals.<\/p>\n The Indo-Brazilian team showcased their skills with a steady performance, clinching a 7-5, 6-4 victory on the clay courts of Roland Garros, taking just one hour and 25 minutes to secure the win. This marks their third consecutive victory in the tournament, highlighting their growing confidence as partners.<\/p>\n Next up for Balaji and Demoliner is a challenging match against the highly-ranked second seeds, Harri Heliovaara from Finland and Henry Patten from Britain, as they aim for a spot in the semifinals.<\/p>\n Their journey in the tournament has been impressive, especially after a strong second-round win against Germany\u2019s Jakob Schnaitter and Mark Wallner, where they triumphed 7-5, 6-2 in just 1 hour and 27 minutes.<\/p>\n On the other hand, it was a disappointing end for Yuki Bhambri and New Zealand\u2019s Michael Venus, who exited in the second round after losing to Italy\u2019s seasoned players Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori with a score of 3-6, 4-6. Despite a strong start in the tournament where they defeated Argentina\u2019s Francisco Cerundolo and Mariano Kestelboim in the first round, Bhambri still has a chance to continue his campaign in the mixed doubles alongside partner Alexandra Panova.<\/p>\n In the junior category, Arnav Paparkar has advanced to the boys\u2019 singles round of 16 by defeating the 15th seed Kuan-Shou Chen from Chinese Taipei with a score of 6-2, 6-4. Paparkar will also compete in boys\u2019 doubles, teaming up with Thailand\u2019s Kunanan Pantaratorn against Britain\u2019s Mark Ceban and Russia\u2019s Kirill Filaretov.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi is set to face the eighth-seeded Russian Mariia Makarova in the second round of the girls\u2019 singles event, keeping Indian hopes alive at Roland Garros across various competitions.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Balaji and Demoliner Shine at French Open, Reach Quarterfinals In an exciting turn of events at the French Open, India\u2019s N. Sriram Balaji and Brazil\u2019s Marcelo Demoliner have caused a stir by defeating the sixth-seeded German duo of Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz to advance to the men\u2019s doubles quarterfinals. The Indo-Brazilian team showcased their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[42885,43881,43886,43885,43884,43880,6785,43882,43879,43883],"class_list":["post-33406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-french-open-2026","tag-french-open-mens-doubles","tag-french-open-quarterfinals-2026","tag-indian-tennis-news","tag-kevin-krawietz-tim-puetz","tag-marcelo-demoliner","tag-n-sriram-balaji","tag-roland-garros-doubles","tag-sriram-balaji-french-open","tag-sriram-balaji-quarterfinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}