India’s Tennis star Rohan Bopanna and his accomplice Matthew Ebden scripted historical past on Saturday after they defeated Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori to turn out to be the brand new Australian Open doubles champions of the lads’s division. The Indian and Australian stars gained the match 7-6(0), 7-5 towards the Italian pair in straight units.
Bopanna had by no means gained a males’s doubles championship at a Grand Slam occasion earlier than his victory on Saturday, regardless of having superior to the ultimate twice on the US Open—in 2013 and 2023. He has gained a Grand Slam match due to his victory within the combined doubles on the 2017 French Open. (Honoured To Meet Sporting Icon Like You: Neeraj Chopra’s Heartfelt Note For Roger Federer Post-Meeting In Zurich)
After an extended, thrilling battle, the duo of Bopanna and Ebden gained the primary set of the lads’s doubles closing. After taking the sport in a tie-breaker, Bopanna and Ebden produced a dominating efficiency to assert the primary set by 7-6.
After dropping the primary set, the duo of Bolelli and Vavassori bought off to a great begin within the first sport because the Italian pair comfortably dominated Bopanna and Ebden and registered a scoreline of 40-15, to take a 1-0 lead within the second set.
The second set turned out to be an exciting encounter, similar to the primary one. In the ninth sport, Bolelli and Vavassori gave a dominating efficiency as Bopanna and Ebden failed to offer a counterattack. However, the blistering Indo-Australian duo made a wonderful comeback and wrapped up the second set by 7-5, profitable maiden Australian Open males’s doubles title.
Earlier within the occasion, when the Indian tennis phenom teamed up with Ebden to win their quarterfinal match, Bopanna secured the highest place within the males’s doubles world rankings, turning into the oldest particular person to attain that feat at 43. Thus, following Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi (each in males’s doubles), and former world No. 1 in ladies’s doubles Sania Mirza, Bopanna turned the fourth Indian to achieve the highest of the worldwide rankings.
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At 43, Rohan Bopanna wins his first males’s doubles Grand Slam title – turns into the oldest participant to take action. #AO2024pic.twitter.com/uCCmBHE9r9
 Susan Ninan (@ninansusan) (*43*) 27, 2024
“On the circuit, we have played lot of Super Tie Breaks, that gets us sharp. They (Machac and Zhang) return extremely well, we had to make sure we serve well and on spots. This partnership (with Ebden) has been good,” Bopanna had mentioned after the semifinal match on Thursday.
