Report-breaker Rohan Bopanna desires to make extra historical past by including the Wimbledon doubles title to his CV.
Bopanna, 43, turned the oldest main males’s doubles winner with Matthew Ebden on the Australian Open final month, and is the oldest tennis world primary.
India’s Bopanna reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon in 2023 and has ambitions to go additional this 12 months.
“Rising up in India Wimbledon was the one Grand Slam proven on TV,” Bopanna instructed BBC World Service Sport.
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“I’ve a extremely shut connection [with Wimbledon]. In 2023 we ended up shedding to the eventual champions, [Neal] Skupski and [Wesley] Koolhof.
“I would like to get again there, get myself in an ideal place and hopefully Matt and I can do Wimbledon collectively.”
It took 61 makes an attempt with 19 totally different companions for Bopanna to win his first doubles Grand Slam title when he and Ebden beat Italians Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori 7-6 (7-0) 7-5 within the remaining, and he stated he took “a pleasant nap” to assist “calm the nerves down” earlier than the match.
Bopanna teamed up with Ebden at first of 2023 and has since set a number of data, together with turning into the oldest Masters champion, the oldest finalist at a Grand Slam and the oldest participant to win a match on the ATP Finals.
“In the present day I really feel once I’m on the prime there isn’t any actual purpose to cease, and I actually really feel I am having fun with travelling nonetheless,” Bopanna stated.
“I am nonetheless competing towards the perfect on the earth, profitable tournaments, now profitable the Grand Slam additionally. I actually really feel so long as I take pleasure in it and I am not forcing myself to be there, I can nonetheless preserve going as a lot as potential.”