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 in New York on Thursday. This can be Bopanna’s second look in a Grand Slam males’s doubles remaining. The sixth seeded Indo-Australian pair, who had reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon Championships this yr, 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 succeed in a Grand slam remaining within the Open period. Bopanna beat the file of Daniel Nestor of Canada, who was 43 years and 4 months when he performed in a Major remaining, by two months.

Interestingly, it was additionally within the US Open the place Bopanna competed in his maiden Major remaining means 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 blended doubles occasion with a second spherical defeat with Indonesian associate Aldila Sutjiadi.

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