Rio Olympics 2016: Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna loses in semifinal, will play for bronze medal (Tennis)

Blog by: Suryakant Tripathi.

The Indian duo of Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna went down fighting in the semi-finals of the mixed doubles tennis event to the US team of Venus Williams and Rajeev Ram at the Rio Olympics.

The Indians won the first set quite comfortably before squandering the lead and going down 6-2, 2-6, 3-10 in one hour and 17 minutes at the Olympic Tennis Centre on Saturday.

The Americans thus went into the final and assured themselves of at least a silver while the Indians will now have to play the play-off for the bronze medal.

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