Rohan Bopanna is already the oldest title, the oldest ATP Masters 1000 champion and the oldest first double world Nr. After the Run by the Indian this week on the Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships, only John Mcenroe bought a Doubles final at a later age.
Bopanna, together with the Japanese Takeru Yuzuki, went to his 64th final at tour level with a dramatic victory on Monday. The couple saved three match points to disturb top seeds Christian Harrison and Evan King 4-6, 6-3, 18-16, which set up a Tuesday final confrontation against second seeds Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Hugo Nys.
At the age of 45, Bopanna has reached his first title match at Tour level since winning the Miami ATP Masters 1000 last March with Matthew Ebden.
Mcenroe was 47 when he won the San Jose title of 2006 with Jonas Bjorkman. The American returned from retirement for two Doubles tournaments that season, won San Jose in February and reached the quarterfinals in Stockholm in October, also with Bjorkman. His San Jose title came from the competition after 12 years; In his last tournament for his first retirement, Mcenroe van Bjorkman lost in the Rotterdam with a semi -final in February 1994.
Bopanna won the last two finals he played and wrote history with titles in the Australian Open and Miami last year at the age of 43. With his Australian Open title, he climbed for the first time to number 1 in the PIF ATP Doubles rankings.
Mcenroe achieved Doubles World No. for the first time 1 in 1979 at the age of 20. The American won 77 Doubles titles at Tour level and earned 544 Doubles at tour level in his career. Bopanna is looking for his 27th title and 538th victory in the Tokyo final.
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