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Australian Open 2024: India's Rohan Bopanna and Australia's Matt Ebden created history as a tennis pair as they defeated Italy's Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori 7-6, 7-5 in the men's doubles final to clinch the Australian Open 2024 title on Saturday, January 27.

With the historic win, Bopanna also became the oldest player to win a Grand Slam men’s doubles title.

Bopanna, who is 43 years and 329 years old, went past the record of Jean-Julien Rojer, who won the French Open men’s doubles title alongside Marcelo Arevola at the age of 40 years and 270 days.


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This was the second straight men’s doubles final appearance at a Grand Slam for Bopanna and Ebden. The pair had finished as runner-up at last year’s US Open.

They headed into the summit clash on the back of their semi-final win over Zhang Zhizhen and Tomas Machac 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (10-7).

 

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Talking about the thrilling contest, the first set went down to the wire as both the pairs held their serves to take the set into a tie-breaker.

In the tie-breaker, Bopanna and Ebden pulled off their class to get the better of Boleli and Vavassori.

Just when it looked like the second set would also go into the tie-breaker, Bopanna and Ebden earned a break of serve and put the final nail in the coffin.

Last year, Bopanna played in the mixed doubles final along with Sania Mirza but finished as the runners-up.

This was also the maiden Grand Slam title for Bopanna and Ebden as the pair finished as the runner-up in the US Open last year after losing against the American pair of Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury in the final.

Earlier in the tournament, Bopanna became the new world No. 1 in men's doubles after the Indo-Aussie pair got the better of the Argentinian duo of Máximo González and Andrés Molteni 6-4, 7-6 (5) to make it to the final four.

This is Bopanna's second grand slam title after the 2017 French Open win with his Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrowski in mixed doubles.