N Sriram Balaji progresses to second round of doubles

India’s N Sriram Balaji and his Mexican partner Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela progressed to the second round of the men’s doubles competition at the Wimbledon 2025 Grand Slam tournament on Thursday.

Balaji and Reyes comfortably defeated the USA’s Learner Tien and Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-4, 6-4 in their opening round encounter.

The Indo-Mexican pair broke their American opponents in the third game of both sets.

Balaji, who became a first-time Olympian at Paris 2024 last year, joins fellow Indian tennis players Yuki Bhambri and Rithvik Bollipalli in the second round of the men’s doubles event in the season’s penultimate tennis Grand Slam.

Yuki Bhambri and his American partner Robert Galloway beat Romain Arneodo of Monaco and Manuel Guinard of France in the opening round on Wednesday.

Rithvik Bollipalli and his Colombian partner Nicolas Barrientos had defeated Alexandre Muller of France and Belgium's David Goffin to advance.

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