Rohan Bopanna is ageing like a high quality wine and a testomony to that’s his qualification for the finals of the Men’s doubles on the ongoing Australian Open 2024.
Bopanna, 43, alongside his Australian doubles companion, Matthew Ebden, made it to the finals of the lads’s doubles on Thursday (January 25) after securing a three-set thriller towards Tomas Machac of Czech Republic and Zhizhen Zhang of China.
The Indo-Aussie pair secured the match by successful it 6-3, 3-6 and 7-6(10-7) and superior to the ultimate. Both Bopanna and Ebden began in chic trend after they claimed the primary set 6-3. However, the Chinese-Czech pair got here again strongly and took the second set 6-3.
The fixture went within the remaining set and with a spot within the summit conflict at stake, each pairs hurled cannonballs at one another. The set went right into a tie-breaker and the skilled Indo-Australian duo clinched it and the match to storm into the finals. Though the unseeded pair of Tomas Machac and Zhizhen Zhang ended on the fallacious facet of the end result, it’s going to take loads of coronary heart from it.
Bopanna and Ebden will face the winners of the second semi-final between the Italian duo of Simone Bolelli, Andrea Vavassori and the German pair of Dominik Koepfer and Yannick Hanfmann. The Italian pair clinched the primary set 6-3 however the German duo of Hanfmann and Koepfer got here roaring again to assert the second to win it 6-3. The third set is evenly poised at 1-1.
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