Australian Open champion and decorated doubles player Rohan Bopanna will make his debut in the Tennis Premier League (TPL) this season, which will be held in Mumbai in December. The 44-year-old Indian, the world number six in doubles, had won the men's doubles title in the season-opening Grand Slam at Melbourne in the company of Matthew Ebden.
Veteran Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna and his Indonesian partner Aldila Sutjiadi entered the semifinals of the US Open mixed doubles.
Bopanna and N Sriram Balaji lost to the French duo of Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Gael Monfils in the men's doubles first round under lights at court 12 on Sunday night.
Rohan Bopanna's fitness coach, sports physiotherapist and head of sports rehabilitation at Peak Performance in Bengaluru, Yash Pandey, and others, talk about rebuilding sportspeople's strength, and how the magic that Bopanna works on the court today is a result of the efforts that he’s put in off it over the years.
Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden won the men's doubles championship with a 7-6(0), 7-5 victory over Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori, two Italians. Bopanna became the oldest person to win a Grand Slam doubles championship at the age of 43.
Rohan Bopanna, the man with a slow gait but a forehand and serve that could break any top team, prevailed in the final of the Australian Open men's doubles to claim another first at 43: his first men's double Grand Slam title.
On Thursday, he was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian decoration. Bopanna is the oldest man in the Open Era to win a Grand Slam doubles title, at 43 years and 329 days.
Bopanna, who will be the oldest world number one when the new rankings are issued on Monday, has been a consistent performer on the circuit.
Going into the Australian Open ranked world No.3, Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden made enough points to be No. 1 after winning their quarterfinal match on January 24. On January 25, they entered the final of the Australian Open Men's Doubles.
Rohan Bopanna received numerous congratulatory messages on social media for becoming World number one for his achievement including one from reigning Novak Djokovic, who posted a story on Instagram
Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden beat Argentine pair Maximo Gonzalez and Andrew Molteni 6-4, 7-6 (7-5). It is the first time that Bopanna has reached the top spot.
Following the victory, Rohan Bopanna took an Indigo flight to his next destination and in a video shared on X (formerly Twitter), the pilot onboard the flight welcomed him and wished him well for the future.
Playing only his second men's doubles final at a Major tournament, Bopanna and his Australian teammate lost the title clash 6-2 3-6 4-6 after two hours and one minute.
The sixth seeded Indo-Australian pair, who had reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon Championships this year, beat the French combination 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 in the semifinals of the hard court major.
Overall, Bopanna, a US Open runner-up in 2010, has made four Grand Slam semifinals in the men's doubles.
The Indo-Australian duo defeated the combine of American Stalder and Dutchman Pel 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (10-5) in a pre-quarterfinal match that lasted two hours and 19 minutes.
On Sunday, the unseeded Rohan Bopanna, 43, along with partner Matthew Ebden, 35, won the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells. Bopanna's has already won two men’s doubles titles this year and three titles last year.
The Brazilian pair of Luisa Stefani and Rafael Matos beat India's Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna 7-6 (2), 6-2 to win the Australian Open mixed doubles title.
Not used to playing singles anymore, India's Rohan Bopanna found rhythm in nick of time to edge past Hong Chung before Yong-Kyu Lim prevented a Korean whitewash with a gritty win over Ramkumar Ramanathan in the Davis Cup AsiaOceania Group I tie on Sunday.
Sania's rampaging run with her Swiss partner continued as the duo stretched its winning streak to 31 after brushing aside Mariana Duque-Marino and Teliana Pereira 6-2, 6-3 in the women's doubles opening round. The duo hardly broke a sweat in its 70-minute win against the unseeded Colombian-Brazilian pair.
Somdev Devvarman and Mahesh Bhupathi crashed out of US Open after losing in their respective games. While Bopanna advanced in men's doubles event, Bhupathi ended his campaign at the tournament as he had already exited men's doubles.
Rohan Bopanna and Edouard Roger-Vasselin toppled third seeded pair of Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares to breeze into the men's doubles quarter-finals of the Wimbledon championships.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna revealed they will play with different partners in 2013 after the Indian doubles team suffered a frustrating 7-5, 3-6, 10/3 defeat in the final of the ATP Tour Finals on Monday.
History slipped out of the hands of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna as the Indian pair lost the summit clash of the ATP World Tour finale to Spanish pair of Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez, here.