Veteran Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna and his Indonesian accomplice Aldila Sutjiadi entered the semifinals of the US Open 2024 combined doubles with a hard-fought win over Australian Matthew Ebden and Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic right here.
The eighth-seeded Indian-Indonesian pair registered a 7-6(4), 2-6, 10-7 win over fourth seeds Ebden and Krejcikova within the quarterfinal that lasted one hour and 33 minutes on Monday evening.
Bopanna and Sutjiadi had earlier defeated the duo of Australian John Pears and Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic 0-6 7-6(5) 10-7 in a second-round match.
Bopanna and Sutjiadi will play American pair of Donald Younger and Taylor Townsend within the semifinals.
The 44-year-old Bopanna had already crashed out of the boys’s doubles competitors after he and his accomplice Ebden, seeded second, misplaced 1-6, 5-7 to the Sixteenth-seed Argentine mixture of Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni within the third spherical.