London: India’s presence at the season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena will be seen after Rohan Bopanna and his partner Florin Mergea qualified as the eighth and final pair in the doubles field.
Bopanna and Mergea clinched the eighth and final spot at the prestigious season finale, following Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo’s victory over Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock at the at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris last week.
Bopanna and Mergea will join the Bryan twins, Jean Julien-Rojer and Horia Tecau, Dodig and Melo, Jamie Murray and John Peers, Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini, Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, and Marcin Matkowski and Nenad Zimonjic in London.
Bopanna first qualified for the doubles final in 2011 with Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan, and then again in 2012 with Mahesh Bhupathi.
This will be Mergea’s first-ever appearance at the O2 Arena. The Indo-Romanian team has a 2-2 record in ATP World Tour Finals this year.
