Madrid Open: Rohan Bhupana and Matthew Ebden enter doubles semi-finals

Madrid Open: Rohan Bhupana and Matthew Ebden enter doubles semi-finals, At the Madrid Open, Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden overcame a set deficit to defeat Santiago Gonzalez and Edouard Roger-Vasselin to advance to the men’s doubles final.

Madrid Open: Rohan Bhupana and Matthew Ebden enter doubles semi-finals

The 43-year-old Bopanna and Ebden, 35, overcame eighth seeds Gonzalez and Roger-Vasselin 5-7 7-6(3) 10-4 to reach their second ATP Masters 1000 final of the season.

The seventh-seeded Indo-Australian pair prevailed in the tie-breaker here on Thursday by winning four of the seven return points.
In the final on Saturday, the two will compete against the unseeded Russian team of Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev.

In the second semifinal, Khachanov and Rublev upset Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer, the defending French Open winners, 6-4, 6-4.

When he and Ebden won the BNP Paribas Open in March, Bopanna made history by becoming the oldest ATP Masters 1000 winner.

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