{"id":12051,"date":"2024-01-27T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=12051"},"modified":"2024-01-30T01:12:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T19:42:41","slug":"rohan-bopanna-became-the-oldest-guy-to-win-the-grand-slam-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2024\/01\/27\/rohan-bopanna-became-the-oldest-guy-to-win-the-grand-slam-australian-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohan Bopanna became the oldest guy to win the Grand Slam: Australian Open."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India&#8217;s Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden won the grand slam championship at the Australian Open 2024, defeating Italy&#8217;s Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori in the men&#8217;s doubles final at Melbourne Park. Rohan Bopanna, 43, has become the oldest grand slam winner, having just risen to the top of the ATP men&#8217;s doubles rankings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"535\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-13.png 535w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-13-300x157.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bopanna&#8217;s only Grand Slam title came at the 2017 French Open. The Karnataka native and Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada defeated Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Robert Farah in mixed doubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martina Navratilova is the oldest Grand Slam winner in tennis&#8217; Open Era history. At the age of 49, the former Czech-American player won the 2006 US Open mixed doubles title with Bob Bryan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bopanna is the fourth Indian to win a Grand Slam championship, following Paes, Bhupathi, and Mirza, and joins the list of famous tennis players who received the coveted Padma Shri Award on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden won the grand slam championship at the Australian Open 2024, defeating Italy&#8217;s Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori in the men&#8217;s doubles final at Melbourne Park. Rohan Bopanna, 43, has become the oldest grand slam winner, having just risen to the top of the ATP men&#8217;s doubles &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[15526,15719,15721,15720],"class_list":["post-12051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-news","tag-australian-open","tag-grand-slam","tag-matthew-ebden","tag-rohan-bopanna"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12053,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12051\/revisions\/12053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}