Rohan Bopanna has qualified for the ATP Finals 2024. The Indian tennis great will partner with Matthew Edben as they take on the best doubles players in Turin next month. In what has been a record-breaking year, Bopanna has already become the oldest Grand Slam and Masters 1000 winner. The 44-year-old also became the world No. 1 after winning the Australian Open and would like to end the year on a similar high.
Apart from Bopanna-Edben, the other three pairs to qualify for the ATP Finals 2024 are Wesley Koolhof-Nikola Mektic, Kevin Krawietz-Tim Puetz, and Harri Heliovaara-Henry Patten.
Rohan Bopanna at ATP Finals
This will be Bopanna’s fourth time reaching the ATP Finals. With Matthew Ebden, he made the semifinals last year but lost to Horacio Zeballos and Marcel Granollers. Prior to take, he’d made the final twice in 2015 and 2012. Florin Mergea was Bopanna’s partner in 2015 and Mahesh Bhupathi partnered up with him in the 2012 edition. However, Bopanna had played the ATP Finals even before that. In 2011, he partner with Pakistan’s Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi but the duo went on lose each of their three matches and got knocked out of the group stage.
Rocky couple of months
Since making the semifinals of the French Open, Rohan Bopanna has struggled. Together with Matthew Ebden, he has a 6-7 record since, and the duo even took a break after they crashed out of the US Open in the round of 16. The worrying thing is that Bopanna hasn’t made a final since the Miami Open.
After not playing the Shanghai Masters and China Open, Ebden and Bopanna have linked up again, but that has so far resulted in a quarterfinal exit in Vienna. In a last bid to get to form before the ATP Finals 2024, they’ll play the Paris Masters, where they’ll face unseeded Alexander Zverev and Marcelo Melo. Fascinatingly, it was Zverev who knocked them out in Vienna, albeit with a different partner.
Bopanna and Ebden will hope to get back into the start of the year groove and show everyone that their early form wasn’t a fluke and they have still much more to win.
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