French Open 2024: Rohan Bopanna, Matthew Ebden crash out in men’s doubles semis

Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden failed to go through to the final of the French Open 2024 men’s doubles. On Thursday, June 6, the Indo-Australian pair lost to the Italian duo of Simone Boleli and Andrea Vavassori 5-7, 6-2, 2-6 at Court Simonne-Mathieu in an hour and 58 minutes. Interestingly, it was the same opponent Bopanna and Ebden defeated in the Australian Open final back in January at the Rod Laver Arena.

But this time around, Boleli and Vavassori avenged their defeat. The pair from Italy is now scheduled to lock horns with the winner of the other semi-final between Marcel Granollers & Horacio Zeballos and an undecided opponent.

Bopanna and Ebden converted the only break point chance that they got, but ended up conceding 2 of them. In the second set, they came out firing on all cylinders and broke their opponent’s serve two times. Most importantly,



Bopanna and Ebden did not give Boleli and Vavassori any chance of earning a service break.

But they lost their momentum in the third set when they could not put up much of a flight. Bopanna and Ebden conceded a couple of breaks, but could not give themselves a single chance to break Vavassori and Boleli’s serve.

Bopanna, earlier, also failed in the mixed doubles after losing in the first round. The veteran partnered Veronika Kudermetova, and they lost 2-6, 2-6 to the duo of Vavassori and Liudmila Samsonova.

After ending his French Open journey, Bopanna will look to prepare for Wimbledon, which is less than a month away. Bopanna will also take part in the Paris Olympics where he will partner N Sriram Balaji. Bopanna has had a decent year and, apart from winning the Australian Open, he became the oldest World No.1 and also won the Padma Shri.