Rohan Bopanna recebtly grew to become the toast of the nation as he received the Australian Open males’s doubles title. Bopanna grew to become the oldest man to win a Grand Slam after clinching the Australian Open 2024 males’s doubles title, pairing with Matthew Ebden. Bopanna, who is ready to show 44 in March this 12 months, additionally celebrated changing into the oldest primary in males’s doubles historical past by successful the title in Melbourne on Saturday. The second seeds claimed a 7-6 (7/0), 7-5 victory over unseeded Italian pair Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori on Rod Laver Arena. 

On Friday, he was concerned in a Pickleball match with industrialist Anand Piramal, tennis stars Sania Mirza and Purav Raja. Pickleball is a sport that’s fairly just like tennis and might be performed each indoors and open air. But paddles and hole plastic balls are used within the recreation.

“What a dream playing pickleball with my buddy and tennis legend #puravraja against two of the WORLD’s greatest tennis players @mirzasaniar and @rohanbopanna0403 (For Bops it was as big as his Australian Open Final),” Piramal wrote on his Instagram Story, which was re-shared by Sania Mirza. 

Bopanna additionally grew to become solely the third Indian to win a males’s doubles Grand Slam title. In a high-quality recreation of tennis, Bopanna and Ebden received the ultimate that lasted one hour and 39 minutes.

Only the long-lasting Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have received Major titles for India in males’s tennis whereas trailblazer Sania Mirza did it in girls’s tennis.

For Bopanna it’s his second Grand Slam title, having received the French Open blended doubles with Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski in 2017.

At 43, Bopanna additionally grew to become the oldest Grand Slam champion in males’s tennis. He bettered the document of Jean-Julien Rojer who, at age of 40, had lifted the French Open males’s doubles trophy in 2022 with Marcelo Arevola.