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Rohan Bopanna: ‘Show tennis to grow tennis in the country’ “There’s one Indian playing an ATP250 event or in an ATP Masters, for example, out of a billion people and if you’re not able to show that match, how do you encourage young athletes?,” asks Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna. Published : May 14, 2022 11:02 IST Proven champion: Rohan Bopanna was the last man from India to win a Grand Slam title when he lifted the mixed doubles crown at the 2017 French Open with Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski. Proven champion: Rohan Bopanna was the last man from India to win a Grand Slam title when he lifted the mixed doubles crown at the 2017 French Open with Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski. After a lean 2021 season, Rohan Bopanna, India’s top-ranked men’s doubles player, has had a fairly good run in the first four months of 2022. World No. 25 Bopanna began this season winning the first ATP 250 event of the year in Adelaide with compatriot Ramkumar Ramanathan. The pair went on to win the Maharashtra Open in Pune. The 6-foot-4 tennis star from Bengaluru was the last man from India to win a Grand Slam title when he won the mixed doubles crown at the 2017 French Open with Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski. READ: In a chat with Sportstar , the 42-year-old reflected on the first quarter of this season and his plans for the Roland Garros. He also shared his thoughts on the possibility of the Chennai Open returning to the ATP tour calendar and the way forward for Indian tennis. Any initial thoughts on yo...

India’s newly paired doubles team of Rohan Bopanna and Ramkumar Ramanathan have secured a direct entry into the main draw of the Maharashtra Open 2022 ATP 250 tennis tournament scheduled from January 31 in Pune. The Indian pair won the With the cut-off being set at 250, Rohan Bopanna (43) and Ramkumar Ramanathan (113) made it for the Maharashtra Open with a combined ranking of 156. The duo is among the 14 pairs who have been handed direct entry in the tournament. Max Purcell and Luke Saville, finalists from the 2020 Australian Open, are among the entrants. The Maharashtra Open is South Asia’s only premiere ATP Tour event and this year’s event will be the tournament’s fourth edition. It will be played at the Balewadi Stadium in Pune. Rohan Bopanna had won the Maharashtra Open title in 2019 with Divij Sharan while Ramkumar Ramanathan reached the semi-final in 2020 when he teamed up with Purav Raja. Players who have secured direct entries in the main draws of singles, as well as doubles, are Italians Lorenzo Musetti and Stefano Travaglia, Moldova’s 2018 US Open semi-finalist Radu Albot, and Lithuania’s Ricardas Berankis. The tournament was called off last year due to COVID-19. This year, it will be held behind closed doors. The qualifying matches are scheduled for January 30-31 and the tournament will conclude on February 6. Add this to your favourites

The Indian tennis star became the oldest to win ATP Masters 1000 title last week. Rohan Bopanna is an Indian tennis player who achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 213 in 2007 and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 3 on 22 July 2013.Since 2002, he has been a member of the Indian Davis Cup team. He carried the doubles torch from his compatriots Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes. Rohan Bopanna, born in 1980, began playing tennis when he was 11. He made his professional international debut in 2007 when he stood out as India’s and the world’s most distinguished player at the Hopman Cup. His style has been described as serve-oriented. Bopanna has competed at the Grand Slams for over a decade in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles. The 43-year-old’s phenomenal athletic career as a Grand Slam champion has repeatedly demonstrated him as a top performer. He has won Masters 1000 events and has been an ATP regular. He has competed in doubles matches with some of India’s best players, including Mahesh Bhupathi, Sania Mirza, Leander Paes, and several international tennis players. The Indian tennis player is frequently seen hitting flat and spin with his one-handed backhand. His forehand has bounce and topspin, which makes it a more solemn style of play. He is well-known for his quick serves, which bring him the majority of the points. Bopanna’s net-rushing style works well on fast courts. While he can shield from the back of the court, he stands at the net and str...

Rohan Bopanna Quick Info Height 6 ft 4 in Weight 84 kg Date of Birth March 4, 1980 Zodiac Sign Pisces Spouse Supriya Annaiah Rohan Bopanna is an Indian professional tennis player who is best known for his exploits in the doubles format of the sport. As of March 2022, in the doubles format, he had amassed a 420–321 win-loss record (56.7%) in ATP-level tournaments and had won 21 ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) doubles titles in 50 final appearances. He had achieved his peak ranking of 3 in July 2013 in the official ATP doubles rankings. In Grand Slam events, in the doubles format, he has reached the quarter-final of the French Open (2011, 2016, 2018, 2021), the semi-final of Wimbledon (2013, 2015), and the final of the US Open (2010). In Grand Slam events, in the mixed doubles format, he had won the French Open in 2017. He had also reached the quarter-final of Wimbledon (2013, 2017), the semi-final of the US Open (2015), and the final of the Australian Open (2018). He had also made it to the final match of the year-ending ATP World Tour Finals twice (2012, 2015) but had lost on both occasions. Born Name Rohan Bopanna Nick Name Bofors Rohan Bopanna as seen in an Instagram Post in April 2020 (Rohan Bopanna / Instagram) Sun Sign Pisces Born Place Bengaluru, Bayaluseemé, Karnataka, India Residence Bengaluru, Bayaluseemé, Karnataka, India Nationality Education Rohan had attended Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College in Bengaluru. Occupation Professional Tennis Player ...

There were times, in 2019 and early 2020, when Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna would wake up with stinging pain in his knees and not want to step on the court. The mileage he had put on the pro tennis tour – more than 16 years at the time – had worn the cartilage out, causing the bones to brush against each other. All that seems a distant memory now as Bopanna resurfaced into the top-10 of men’s doubles tennis after seven long years. The latest ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals, men’s tennis governing body) rankings, released on 22 May, saw the Indian placed at No 9 in doubles. At 43, he’s the oldest member of the top 10, and in fact, the top-100, in men’s doubles. Also read: Bopanna has to jog his memory when asked about the last time he was part of the elite club. “Maybe six or seven years,” Bopanna told Lounge. June 2016, to be precise. “It’s been a long time. With the pain I had in my knee I never thought it would be possible.” When the tennis tour was suspended in 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic, Bopanna had turned to Iyengar Yoga for his knee pain. “It’s more of an active yoga, not just about breathing,” he said. “I used to do it four times a week for three months. It helped strengthen the muscles around the knee and take the load off the joint. They use a lot of props: blocks, ropes, different kinds of strength work. Also, you are using your own body weight.” The yoga props became the staples in his tennis kit bag. Once he could move and play pain free, ...

Bopanna at the Country(sports) Residence Born ( 1980-03-04) 4 March 1980 (age43) Bangalore Height 1.93m (6ft 4in) Turnedpro 2003 Plays Right-handed (one-handed backhand) Prize money $5,581,827 Singles Careerrecord 15–33 (31.3%in Careertitles 0 Highestranking No. 213 (23 July 2007) Grand Slam singles results Q2 ( Q1 ( Q2 ( Q2 ( Doubles Careerrecord 475–355 (57.2%in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main-draw matches, and in Davis Cup) Careertitles 24 Highestranking No. 3 (22 July 2013) Currentranking No. 9 (29 May 2023) Grand Slam doubles results 3R ( SF ( SF ( F ( Other doubles tournaments F ( 2R ( Mixed doubles Careerrecord 55–42 (56.7%in Grand Slam matches, and in Careertitles 1 Grand Slam mixed doubles results F ( W ( QF ( SF ( Other mixed doubles tournaments SF – 4th ( Team competitions 22–27 (singles 10–17, doubles 12–10) 6–6 (singles 0–6, doubles 6–0) Representing Men's tennis Last updated on: 30 May 2023. Rohan Bopanna ( b ə ˈ p ɑː n ə/ bə- PAHN-ə; Bopanna partnered with IndoPak Express, went on to win four Challenger titles in quick succession. However, it was only in the 2010 season that the pair broke into the top-ten doubles teams. That year, they reached the quarterfinals at Bopanna has won five Masters 1000 men's doubles tournaments: the 2011 and 2012 Paris Masters, the 2015 Madrid Open,the 2017 Monte Carlo Masters, and the 2023 Indian Wells Masters, where he became the oldest Masters 1000 champion in history. He was a finalist at the Early life [ ] Rohan began pl...