Indian tennis nice Rohan Bopanna created historical past as he and his accomplice Matthew Ebden defeated Croatia’s Ivan Dodic and American Austin Krajicek 6-7 6-3 10-16 to clinch the Miami Open title. Within the course of, Bopanna, aged 44, turned the oldest man to win a Masters 1000 title on the ATP circuit. The tennis star broke his personal file, having created it final yr by profitable the Indian Wells title. The Miami Open win additionally enabled Bopanna to turn out to be the second Indian since Leander Paes to achieve the finals of all 9 ATP Masters 1000 occasions.
Bopanna and Ebden had a sloppy begin to the sport as they misplaced the primary set by 6-7. Nevertheless, the Indo-Aussie pair stored their nerves cool and made a stable comeback within the match. Within the second set, Bopanna-Ebden sealed a 6-3 win. In the meantime, within the third and deciding set, they dominated over their opponents and clinched a 10-6 win to finish the sport of their favour.
Earlier, within the semi-final spherical, Bopanna-Edben entered into the ultimate after beating Spain’s Marcel Granollers and his Argentine accomplice Horacio Zeballos by 6-1 and 6-4.
Within the semi-final match of the Miami Open, they dominated the sport from the very first second. Within the first set, the Indo-Aussie duo clinched a 6-1 win. Within the second set, the opponents tried to make a comeback however Bopanna and his teammate stored their nerves cool and sealed a 6-4 win.
Within the Australian Open held this yr, the duo defeated Italy’s Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori in straight units, 7-6, 7-5, in an exhilarating closing. It was Bopanna’s second profession Grand Slam title and his first in males’s doubles. His earlier Grand Slam victory got here in blended doubles with Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada on the 2017 French Open.
Bopanna, who made his seventeenth Australian Open look on this version, comfortably wrapped up his maiden Grand Slam males’s doubles title victory. Aged 43 years, 329 days, he additionally turned the oldest Grand Slam champion.
The Indian tennis participant can be the third Indian man within the Open Period to win a serious males’s doubles title, following Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi. He additionally turned the world’s first-ranked participant following the title win.
With ANI inputs
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