{"id":258084,"date":"2026-01-26T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/258084\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:53:07","slug":"yuki-bhambris-third-round-loss-draws-ends-indias-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/258084\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuki Bhambri\u2019s third-round loss draws ends India\u2019s campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yuki Bhambri and his partner Andre Goransson of Sweden exited in the third round of the men\u2019s doubles at the Australian Open 2026 on Monday, bringing India\u2019s campaign at the season\u2019s first Grand Slam<\/a> to a close.<\/p>\n

The Indo-Swedish pair, seeded 10th, went down in straight sets to the unseeded Brazilian duo of Orlando Luz and Rafael Matos, losing 7(9)-6(7), 6-3 in an hour and 44 minutes. Matos is a 2023 Australian Open mixed doubles champion.<\/p>\n

Bhambri, India\u2019s top-ranked men\u2019s doubles player at world No. 22, and Goransson held serve throughout a closely-fought opening set, which was eventually decided in a tie-break that went the Brazilians\u2019 way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bhambri and Goransson drew first blood in the second set by breaking Luz\u2019s serve in the fifth game. However, they were immediately pegged back in the next, with Goransson dropping serve. Bhambri was then broken in the eighth, which eventually sealed the result.<\/p>\n

The defeat ended India\u2019s last remaining challenge at the Australian Open<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

The run marked Bhambri\u2019s first appearance in the third round of the men\u2019s doubles at Melbourne Park since 2014, when he partnered New Zealand\u2019s Michael Venus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bhambri\u2019s best Grand Slam showing to date remains the US Open last year, where he reached the semi-finals alongside Venus.<\/p>\n

Olympian Sriram Balaji\u2019s campaign had ended earlier in the men\u2019s doubles, with the Indian tennis player<\/a> and his Austrian partner Neil Oberleitner, losing to Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador and Mate Pavic of Croatia in the second round.<\/p>\n

Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha\u2019s Grand Slam debut ended in a first-round loss, with the Indian and Thailand\u2019s Pruchya Isaro exiting the men\u2019s doubles early.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the mixed doubles, Bhambri and American partner Nicole Melichar-Martinez exited in the first round, losing in straight sets to sixth seeds Zhang Shuai of the People\u2019s Republic of China and Germany\u2019s Tim Putz.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 114th edition of the Australian Open will conclude on February 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yuki Bhambri and his partner Andre Goransson of Sweden exited in the third round of the men\u2019s doubles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-258084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}