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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 in New York 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 semi-finals of the Wimbledon Championships this year, beat the French combination 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 in the semi-finals 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 to be played on Friday, Bopanna and Ebden will take on Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury, who beat Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek 7-5, 3-6, 6-3.
The American-British team of Ram and Salisbury, which won their last 16 matches together in New York, broke four times to advance after an hour and 42 minutes.
The third seeds have dropped just one set en route to the last four as they chase their second title of 2023.