US Open 2023: Rohan Bopanna-Matthew Ebden Enter Males’s Doubles Remaining With Straight-Units Victory

Rohan Bopanna (left) and Matthew Ebden throughout US Open 2023.© AFP

Persevering with their dream run, India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Australian companion Matthew Ebden entered the ultimate of the US Open with a straight-set win over French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut in New York on Thursday. This shall be Bopanna’s second look in a Grand Slam males’s doubles last. 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 laborious court docket main.

With this feat, the 43-year-old Indian additionally turned the oldest participant to achieve a Grand slam last 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 last, by two months.

Curiously, it was additionally within the US Open the place Bopanna competed in his maiden Main last approach again in 2010 together with Pakistani companion Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi.

Within the last, 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 companion Aldila Sutjiadi.

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