One of the best tennis gamers of his era, Rafael Nadal took to social media to congratulate Rohan Bopanna after the Indian maestro clinched the Australian Open Men’s Doubles title with associate Matthew Ebden. Bopanna produced unarguably the best week of his profession, as he bagged his maiden males’s doubles Grand Slam title whereas additionally changing into the oldest participant to clinch the No. 1 rating. Nadal took to Instagram and posted a narrative the place he congratulated the 43-year-old and wrote: “Congrats Rohan on an amazing and unique achievement!!!!”.

Rafa Nadal congratulates Rohan Bopanna after he grew to become the oldest man to win a Grand Slam within the Open Era. pic.twitter.com/A6EJFEg7cG

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With the Australian Open males’s doubles title, Bopanna additionally grew to become the oldest man to win a Grand Slam title.

In the summit conflict on Saturday, Bopanna and Matthew Ebden dominated on serve all through the one-hour, 40-minute match, successful 80 per cent (40/50) of video games with their first supply and never going through a break level to high off a implausible week.

The duo defeated Italy’s Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori in straight units 7-6, 7-5 in an exciting encounter.

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 grew to become the oldest Grand Slam champion.

The Indian tennis participant can also be the third Indian man within the Open Era to win a serious males’s doubles title, following Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi. On Monday, he’ll turn out to be the oldest top-ranked participant within the ATP Doubles Rankings.

This was Bopanna’s second Grand Slam triumph, 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.

With ANI inputs