US Open 2023: Rohan Bopanna-Ebden reach third round with straight-set win

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India's Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden entered the men's doubles third round at the US Open 2023 with a straight-set victory over Kazakhstan's Andrey Golubev and Russian Roman Safiullin.

The sixth seeded Indo-Australian pair won 6-3, 6-3 on Friday and would meet the unseeded British team of Henry Patten and Julian Cash in the pre-quarter-final. By entering the last 16 stage, the duo also ensured at least USD 58,000 prize money for themselves.

The experienced Bopanna-Ebden pairing raised its game when it got break points, converting three out of seven. The opposition team couldn't even earn one break point.

Coco Gauff drops a set to reach round of 16

Things were not going well for Coco Gauff at the US Open 2023 on Friday night. Her shots were off. She was struggling to hold serve. She dropped a set. All the while, Gauff was talking to her coaches, Brad Gilbert and Pere Riba. Talking to herself. Slapping her thigh or putting her palm to her face.

And when the No. 6-seeded Gauff needed to lift her game, when she needed to get headed in the right direction before it was too late, she did just that. Did she ever. Asking for more noise from the partisan fans at Arthur Ashe stadium - and, naturally, getting it - Gauff grabbed the last 10 games for a 3-6, 6-3, 6-0 victory over No. 32 Elise Mertens to reach the fourth round at Flushing Meadows.

"The energy today definitely helped me. I felt you guys," said Gauff, a 19-year-old from Florida. "I played every point my hardest."

The 2022 French Open runner-up won for the 14th time in her past 15 matches, all on hard courts. That stretch follows a first-round exit at Wimbledon in July and includes the two biggest titles of Gauff's career.

"After I lost that first set," Gauff said, "I told myself: There's ... a lot of the match to play."

-ANI/AP