Rohan Bopanna and Denis Shapovalov were knocked out of the Rogers Cup after losing 6-7 (3), 6-7 to the Dutch duo of Robin Haase and Wesley Koolhof in the men's doubles semifinal.
The Indo-Canadian pair got off to a strong start and broke twice to take a 4-2 lead, but their Dutch opponents fought back to force the first set to a tiebreaker. It was one-way traffic here as Haase and Koolhof won three points at a stretch to pocket the set.
The second set saw neither team able to break serve and lead to another tiebreaker. Bopanna and Shapovalov had a set point at 6-5, but squandered it and the Dutchmen went on to seal the win off their second match point.
Haase and Koolhof will now face the Spanish-Argentine pair of Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos in the title clash.
The Indo-Canadian pair had earlier got a walkover in their quarterfinal clash against France’s Benoit Paire and Swiss Stan Wawrinka. Bopanna and Shapovalov had knocked out the fourth seed French pair of Nichola Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin before defeating Kyle Edmund and Taylor Fritz in straight sets in the round of 16.
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