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Australian Open 2024: Bopanna-Ebden enter quarter-final with 7-6, 7-6 win

India's Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden entered the men's doubles quarterfinal of the Australian Open with an impressive 7-6 7-6 victory over Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands and Croatia's Nikola Mektic here on Monday. The 43-year-old Bopanna and his Aussie partner, who are seeded second in the draw, were broken early in both sets but showed themselves to be up to the task with some great returns against the 14th seeds. The Indo-Australian pair will now meet the sixth-seeded Argentine duo of Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni.

Australian Open 2024: Nagal bow out; Bopanna-Ebden pair moves to 2nd round

Chinese tennis prodigy Juncheng Shang blunted Sumit Nagal's challenge at the Australian Open to halt the Indian's impressive run at the first major of the season here on Thursday. Coming into the match after an inspiring win over a top-30 player, Nagal began in the same dominating fashion but the 18-year-old wild card entrant got better as the game progressed to walk out a winner with a 2-6 6-3 7-5 6-4 scoreline. The second round contest lasted two hours and 50 minutes and it was clear that Nagal had run out of steam in the fourth set. In contrast, Shang began to serve well from the third set onwards and was at ease in pocketing his service games despite being troubled by high backhand balls in the match. Nevertheless, the 26-year-old Nagal, who hails from Jhajjar in Haryana, will exit the Melbourne Park with cherishable memories, having made the main draw through the Qualifiers and scripting a win over world number 27 Alexander Bublik. Nagal will take home AUD 180,000 (nearly 98

Asian Games 2023 September 29 schedule: India event timings, streaming

India will hope for a rich medal haul from the athletics contingent who will begin their campaign on Friday, Day 6 of the Asian Games 2023. Saketh Myeneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan will play for gold

Asian Games 2023 September 27 schedule: India event timings, streaming

India will hop for a big medal haul from shooters as they will be in action in six medal events. Indian women's hockey team will open their campaign against Singapore as well

Love of Davis Cup missing, now it's just another tournament: Rohan Bopanna

Someone who willingly tweaked his own game to adjust to the styles of legendary Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi while playing for the country, Rohan Bopanna often gets baffled to find the love of playing Davis Cup diminishing with passage of time. Bopanna does not find the current lot as passionate about playing the David Cup compared to players from past generations. "It has become too mechanical to just come, play and leave," says Bopanna who is set to quit Davis Cup this coming Sunday. A bit agitated, he feels Davis Cup has become just another tournament for the current generation of players. On the other side, Davis Cup is one tournament where it is believed across the globe that rankings won't matter every time. Even the tiny tennis nations sometimes succeed in flooring the behemoths. And that belief came from the team unity, proper planning and passionate support coming from the bench and the teammates who would shout their hearts out to support the player on the court from

Bopanna again suffers heartbreak, loses US Open final with partner Ebden

Rohan Bopanna's agonising wait to win his maiden men's doubles Grand Slam title continued as he lost the hard-fought US Open final with partner Matthew Ebden to defending champions Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury here on Friday. 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. Ram and Sailsbury became the first team to win three straight US Open titles. Bopanna was playing the US Open final for the second time in his career and this time as the oldest player at 43. He had finished a runner-up with his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi way back in 2010, losing the title clash to the legendary Bryan brothers. Overall, it was third Grand Slam final for Bopanna, who won his first and only Major in 2017 when he lifted the French Open mixed doubles trophy with Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrowski. Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi are only two male tennis players from

US Open 2023, doubles final: Rohan Bopanna live match to begin at 9:30 PM

US Open 2023 men's doubles final live streaming will be available on the Sony LIV application and website

'I was on 2, 3 painkillers a day': Rohan Bopanna ahead of US Open final

Bopanna and Matthew Ebden will play Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury for the US Open title on Friday.

US Open 2023: Rohan Bopanna-Matthew Ebden enter men's doubles final

Continuing their dream run, India's Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden entered the final of the US Open with a straight-set win over French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut here on Thursday. This will be Bopanna's second appearance in a Grand Slam men's doubles final. 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. With this feat, the 43-year-old Indian also became the oldest player to reach a Grand slam final in the Open era. Bopanna beat the record of Daniel Nestor of Canada, who was 43 years and 4 months when he played in a Major final, by two months. Interestingly, it was also in the US Open where Bopanna competed in his maiden Major final way back in 2010 along with Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi. In the final, Bopanna and Ebden will play the winner of the other semifinal between the ..

US Open: India's Bopanna and partner Ebden reach men's doubles semifinals

Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden saved seven set points in the opening set before downing Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow to move to the US Open men's doubles semifinals, their second straight last-four appearance in Grand Slams this year. The sixth seeded Indo-Australian pair beat the American combo 7-6 (10) 6-1 in the quarterfinals of the hard court major. Bopanna and Ebden had reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon Championships where they had lost to Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski. The 43-year-old Indian now has the opportunity to secure a place in a Grand Slam men's doubles final for the second time in his career. Interestingly, it was in the US Open only when Bopanna competed in his maiden Major final way back in 2010. Up against the sixth seeds is now the French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, who beat American Robert Galloway and Albano Olivetti from France in the other quarterfinal. Bopanna is already out of the mixed doubles contention with a sec

US Open 2023: Rohan Bopanna-Matthew Ebden enter men's doubles quarterfinals

India's Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden advanced to the men's doubles quarterfinals at the US Open with a hard-fought three-set win over Julian Cash and Henry Patten. The sixth seeded Indo-Australian pair won 6-4, 6-7(5), 7-6(10-6) against the British duo of Cash and Patten after toiling hard for two hours 22 minutes in the third round at the Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday. Bopanna and Ebden, who had reached the Wimbledon semifinals earlier this year, hit 13 aces and won 81 per cent of their first-serve points. They will next face the winners of the third round match between top seeds Wesley Koolhof of Netherlands and United Kingdom's Neal Skupski and the local duo of Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow. The 43-year-old remains the only Indian in the fray in the men's doubles event after Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni made first round exits. Bopanna, however, crashed out of the mixed doubles event. Partnering Indonesian Aldila Sutjiadi, Bopanna went down 2

US Open 2023: Bopanna-Ebden duo enters third round of men's doubles

India's Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden entered the men's doubles third round at the US Open with a straight-set victory over Kazakhstan's Andrey Golubev and Russian Roman Safiullin. The sixth seeded Indo-Australian pair won 6-3, 6-3 on Friday and would meet the unseeded British team of Henry Patten and Julian Cash in the pre quarter-final. By entering the last 16 stage, the duo also ensured at least USD 58,000 prize money for themselves. The experienced Bopanna-Ebden pairing raised its game when it got break points, converting three out of seven. The opposition team couldn't even earn one break point.

Wimbledon Day 10: Medvedev wins thriller, Alcaraz easy one to reach last 4

Wimbledon 2023: Danil Medvedev came from being 1-2 down to first win a tie-breaker in the fourth set and then the match 3-2 to reach his first-ever Wimbledon semi-final

Wimbledon: Bopanna-Ebden come from behind to reach Men's Doubles semis

Wimbledon 2023: India's Rohan Bopann and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden came from being 0-1 down to win back-to-back sets and reach their first-ever Grand Slam semis together

Old guns blazing: Bopanna-Ebden enter last 8 of Wimbledon Men's Doubles

Rohan Bopanna kept alive the Indian contention at Wimbledon after the 43-year-old and his 36-year-old Aussie partner Matthew Ebden defeated the pairing of Dutchman David Pel and USA's Reese Stalder

Wimbledon 2023: Bopanna-Ebden enter pre-quarters in men's doubles event

The sixth-seeded pairing of Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden beat the British wildcard duo of Johannus Monday and Jacob Fearnley to enter the men's doubles pre-quarterfinals at Wimbledon here on Monday. The Indo-Australian combine defeated Monday and Fearnley 7-5, 6-3 in a second-round match on court three. Bopanna and Ebden next meet Reese Stalder and David Pel. The American-Dutch pairing beat Nicolas Mahut and Llyod Glasspool 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (10-7) on Sunday.

Wimbledon 2023: Yuki-Myneni lose Men's Doubles, Bopanna-Dabrowski in Mixed

Indian doubles pair of Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni put up a valiant fight before going down to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain and Adrian Mannarino of France in a three-setter to crash out of the Wimbledon first round, here on Sunday. After a subdued opening set, Bhambri and Myneni were at their best and broke the Spanish-French pair in the 10th game to bring the match on an even keel but they could not capitalise to eventually go down 4-6 6-4 4-6 in a two-hour battle. Indian challenge in mixed doubles ended after the sixth-seeded Rohan Bopanna and Gabriela Dabrowski were knocked out by 2019 Wimbledon champions Ivan Dodig and Latisha Chan 7-6 (5), 3-6, 4-6. The Indo-Canadian pair, who won the French Open in 2017, took the opening set after winning the tie-breaker in a 53-minute battle. Bopanna and Dabrowski broke the Croat-Taiwanese duo in the second and fourth games to lead 4-2. But Dodig and Chan bounced back to break Bopanna and Dabrowski in the seventh game before ...

Wimbledon Day 6: Medvedev, Alcaraz win 4-setters, Berrettini downs Zverev

On the sixth day at Wimbledon 2023, favoured stars Carlos Alcaraz, Danil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas had easy wins while Matteo Berrettini upset Zverev. Runne survived a scare as well

Wimbledon: Rohan Bopanna, Matthew Ebden make winning start in Men's Doubles

India's Rohan Bopanna and his men's doubles partner Matthew Ebden from Australia survived a scare before prevailing over Argentine duo of Guillermo Duran and Tomas Etcheverry to advance to the second round of the Wimbledon here. The sixth-seeded Indo-Australian duo outwitted the spirited Argentine pair 6-2 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (10-8) in their opening match that lasted two hours and 12 minutes. The 43-year-old Bopanna and 35-year-old Ebden, who claimed two doubles titles on the ATP Tour earlier this year, will next face the unseeded British pair of Jacob Fearnley and Johannus Monday on Sunday. Bopanna and Ebden claimed the Qatar Open in February and in March, the Indian became the oldest player to win a Master Series tournament (ATP1000) at Indian Wells in USA. Bopanna had broken the record of Canadian Daniel Nestor, who had won the Cincinnati Masters title when he was 42 in 2015. Bopanna will pair up with Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski in the mixed doubles on Saturday. The sixth seeded pair

Wimbledon 2023: Top seeds, Russian entry, prize money and everything else

Wimbledon, also known as the Championships begins on July 03rd, 2023. Here's a look at the must-know details of this year's edition