Persevering with their dream run, India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Australian associate Matthew Ebden entered the ultimate of the US Open with a straight-set win over French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut right here on Thursday.
This will likely be Bopanna’s second look in a Grand Slam males’s doubles ultimate.
The sixth seeded Indo-Australian pair, who had reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon Championships this 12 months, beat the French mixture 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 within the semifinals of the onerous court docket main.
With this feat, the 43-year-old Indian additionally grew to become the oldest participant to succeed in a Grand slam ultimate within the Open period. Bopanna beat the document of Daniel Nestor of Canada, who was 43 years and 4 months when he performed in a Main ultimate, by two months.
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Curiously, it was additionally within the US Open the place Bopanna competed in his maiden Main ultimate manner again in 2010 together with Pakistani associate Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi.
Within the ultimate, Bopanna and Ebden will play the winner of the opposite semifinal between the American pair of Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury and the Croatian-American duo of Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek on the Louis Armstrong stadium.
Bopanna is already out of the blended doubles occasion with a second spherical defeat with Indonesian associate Aldila Sutjiadi.