Yuki Bhambri’s deep run at the US Open 2025 tennis tournament came to a halt in the men’s doubles semi-finals, as India’s campaign in New York concluded on Thursday.
The 14th-seeded pair of Yuki Bhambri and New Zealand’s Michael Venus went down 6(2)-7(7), 7(7)-6(5), 6-4 to sixth seeds Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury of Great Britain after a gruelling two-hour and 53-minute battle.
Reaching the US Open men’s doubles semi-finals marked the Indian tennis player’s maiden Grand Slam final-four appearance and the deepest run of his career at the majors.
The opening set of the match saw Yuki Bhambri, India’s top-ranked men’s doubles tennis player at world No. 32, and Venus, break Olympians Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury in the eighth game.
However, Bhambri-Venus failed to capitalise as they lost serve in the subsequent game, leading to a tie-break that the Indo-Kiwi pair won comfortably.
In the second set, Bhambri-Venus broke Skupski-Salisbury in the opening game before failing to convert a break point in the fourth.
The miss proved costly for Bhambri-Venus as Skupski-Salisbury broke back in the very next game and clinched a tight tie-breaker.
Skupski-Salisbury got the break in the first game of the third set and never looked back, sealing their place in the final.
Yuki Bhambri was the only Indian tennis player who made it to a semi-final at the US Open this year. On Sunday, Anirudh Chandrasekar and Vijay Sundar Prashanth’s run came to an end in the second round.
Earlier, Indian veteran Rohan Bopanna and his partner Romain Arneodo of Monaco crashed out in the opening round on Saturday. Arjun Kadhe and his partner, Diego Hidalgo of Ecuador, also made a first-round exit.