Wimbledon 2014: India's Purav Raja and Divij Sharan lose respective doubles matches

Purav Raja (R) with Marcelo Demoliner

London, June 25 (IANS): Indian tennis players Divij Sharan and Purav Raja suffered first round defeats in their respective men's doubles matches at Wimbledon here Wednesday.

In the first match on Court No.11, the 15^th-seeded Colombian-Polish pair of Juan-Sebastian Cabal and Marcin Matkowski needed only one hour and 41 minutes to beat the Indo-Brazilian team of Marcelo Demoliner and Raja 6-2, 6-4, 6-4.

Later on Court No. 5, British-Luxembourg combine Jamie Delgado and Gilles Muller came back from the brink of defeat to edge past Indian-Taipei pairing of Yen-Hsun Lu and Sharan in five highly competitive sets.

Lu and Sharan won the first two sets 6-2, 6-2 and seemed to be well on the way to the second round but Delgado and Muller turned the tables on them to win the next three sets 7-6(3), 6-3, 6-2.