The Indian-Australian duo of Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden finished as runner-up in the Men’s Doubles at the Shanghai Masters 2023. The pair lost against Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos in the final on Sunday, 15th October 2023. Bopanna and Ebden won the first set but they couldn’t capitalise the lead and went on to lose the contest 7-5, 2-6, 5-10
Bopanna and Ebden, however, earn a spot in the season-ending ATP Finals 2023, which will take place in Turin, Italy this November. This was Rohan Bopanna’s third ATP Masters 1000 final of the year. The Indian tennis player, now 43, had partnered Ebden to win the Indian Wells Masters title back in March.
The Indo-Australian duo had also made it to the final of the Madrid Masters back in May but lost to Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev in the deciding match.
Bopanna and Ebden, the fourth seeds, faced stiff competition from Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos. Both teams managed to hold their respective serves in the first set before the Indo-Australian duo managed to get a decisive break point in the 12th game to take the lead.
Having dropped their first set of the tournament, Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos, the seventh seeds, responded brilliantly. They outplayed Bopanna-Ebden in the second to draw level.
With Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos taking the first two points in the tie-breaker, Bopanna and Ebden were left playing catch-up before finally yielding the contest, which lasted just under 90 minutes.
En route to the final, Rohan Bopanna had downed the French pair of Fabien Reboul and Sadio Doumbia 7-6(0), 4-6, 10-2 via tie-break in the semi-finals. The Indo-Australian duo had defeated Matwe Middelkoop-Andreas Mies, Karen Khachanov-Andrey Rublev and Marcelo Arevalo Gonzalez-Jean-Julien Rojer, the eighth seeds, in earlier rounds.
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