Divij Sharan and Rajeev Ram on Friday came from behind to beat Marcel Granollers and Fabio Fognini and advance to third round of the Australian Open.
After the Indo-US pair were broken early in the first set, they failed to capitalise on both chances they got to break and lost the set 4-6.
In the next set, the two pairs broke each other’s serve twice and it reached the tie-breaker stage. But Sharan and Ram held their nerves to clinch the set 7-6.
In the decider, Sharan and Ram rode on the momentum, breaking their opponents’ serve twice and holding theirs to clinch it 6-2.
They will next face the winner of Feliciano Lopez-Marc Lopez and Ben Mclachlan-Jan-Lennard Struff.
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