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Bopanna/Ebden cut through tie-break tension for QF spot

Hanfmann/Koepfer upset Granollers/Zeballos in Melbourne
January 22, 2024
Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden in third-round action Monday at the Australian Open.
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Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden in third-round action Monday at the Australian Open. By ATP Staff

Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden passed a hefty test in their bid for a first major crown as a team on Monday at the Australian Open.

The second-seeded pair overcame Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektic 7-6(8), 7-6(4) to book a quarter-final spot at the hard-court Grand Slam. Bopanna and Ebden, the No. 3 and No. 4 in the Pepperstone ATP Doubles Rankings, respectively, powered 31 winners, including five aces en route to a one-hour, 43-minute triumph.

India’s Bopanna and Australia’s Ebden reached the final at last year’s US Open but had not won a match as a pair at the Australian Open prior to this year. Their next test at Melbourne Park is a quarter-final clash with sixth seeds Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni.

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Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos were unable to join Bopanna and Ebden in the last eight. Yannick Hanfmann and Dominik Koepfer upset the fourth seeds 7-6(5), 6-7(3), 6-4 to book a meeting with Hugo Nys and Jan Zielinski, who downed Lloyd Glasspool and Jean-Julien Rojer 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(10-3).

The quarter-final lineup was completed by Ariel Behar and Adam Pavlasek. The Uruguayan-Czech team upset fifth seeds Santiago Gonzalez and Neal Skupski 3-6, 7-6(1), 6-4 to advance to face Tomas Machac and Zhang Zhizhen.

 

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