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Finding lightning in a bottle: The chemistry between tennis doubles players


Finding a doubles partner for Grand Slam tennis requires connections, patience, persistence and a good smartphone data plan.
Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski won a French Open mixed doubles championship with India’s Rohan Bopanna last June, and they played together at Wimbledon in July and the U.S. Open in September, losing in the quarter-finals both times.
Little wonder, then, that Dabrowski was blindsided when she learned Bopanna had decided to play in the Australian Open in January with Hungary’s Timea Babos, the Canadian’s partner in the 2010 junior women’s doubles final in Melbourne.
Double ouch.
Here, though, was where tennis connections made a huge difference.
India’s Rohan …read more

Source: Ottawa Citizen

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