{"id":118908,"date":"2025-09-04T09:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118908\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:07:07","slug":"yuki-bhambri-progresses-into-maiden-grand-slam-tennis-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118908\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuki Bhambri progresses into maiden Grand Slam tennis semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

India\u2019s Yuki Bhambri moved into his maiden Grand Slam semi-final after a hard-fought win in the men\u2019s doubles quarters at the US Open 2025<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Bhambri and his partner, Michael Venus of New Zealand, the 14th seeds, beat the 11th-seeded team of Nikola Mekti\u0107 of Croatia and the USA\u2019s Rajeev Ram 6-3, 6(6)-7(8), 6-3 in a marathon match that lasted two hours and 39 minutes in New York.<\/p>\n

Both Mekti\u0107 and Ram have won Grand Slams in the past, albeit with different partners. Mekti\u0107 is also one half of the men\u2019s doubles champions from Tokyo 2020 while Ram is a two-time Olympic silver medallist – from Rio 2016 and Paris 2024.<\/p>\n

Yuki Bhambri, India\u2019s top-ranked men\u2019s doubles tennis player at world No. 32, and Venus broke Mekti\u0107-Ram\u2019s serve in the fourth game and consolidated to close out the opener.<\/p>\n

The second set saw Bhambri-Venus lose serve in the fourth game before breaking back in the seventh to force a tie-break.<\/p>\n

In the tie-break, the Indo-New Zealand duo failed to convert a match point at 6-5, allowing Mekti\u0107-Ram the opportunity to win the second set and take the contest into a decider.<\/p>\n

The final set was a tense affair with the Indian tennis player<\/a> and his Kiwi partner getting a break point in the ninth game to set up an opportunity.<\/p>\n

However, they were made to work hard for the win, saving seven break points before finally converting their match point to move into the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Bhambri\u2019s charge to the US Open semi-finals doesn\u2019t just mark his first appearance in New York\u2019s last four but also the deepest run of his Grand Slam career.<\/p>\n

He and Michael Venus will take on the sixth-seeded duo of Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury of Great Britain in the semi-finals on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Joe Salisbury won the US Open men\u2019s doubles thrice in the past from 2021 to 2023, while Neal Skupski had reached the finals of the event in the 2022 edition of the tournament.<\/p>\n

Yuki Bhambri is the last remaining Indian challenge at this year\u2019s US Open. Anirudh Chandrasekar and Vijay Sundar Prashanth\u2019s run came to an end with a 6-4, 6-3 defeat to Brazil\u2019s Fernando Romboli and Australia\u2019s John-Patrick Smith.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Indian veteran Rohan Bopanna<\/a> and his partner Romain Arneodo of Monaco crashed out in the opening round on Saturday. Arjun Kadhe and his partner, Diego Hidalgo of Ecuador, also made a first-round exit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Yuki Bhambri moved into his maiden Grand Slam semi-final after a hard-fought win in the men\u2019s doubles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-118908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}