Rohan Bopanna-Matthew Ebden enter US Open doubles last

Continuing 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 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 grew to become 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 Major last, by two months.

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Interestingly, it was additionally within the US Open the place Bopanna competed in his maiden Major last manner again in 2010 together with Pakistani associate Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi.

In 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 combined doubles occasion with a second spherical defeat with Indonesian associate Aldila Sutjiadi.