Rohan Bopanna brings home the ultimate prize from the French Open

Becomes only the fourth Indian to win a Grand Slam, after Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza
Rohan and Gabriela
Rohan and Gabriela

It was an outcome of many firsts at the French Open mixed doubles final today. The Indo-Canadian pair of Rohan Bopanna and Gabriela Dabrowski, while making light work of their opponents Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Robert Farah (Germany and Columbia), won their first Grand Slam titles respectively. Pairing up for the first ever time in a major, their journey to the final was not easy at all, as they were brought to the test by the likes of second seeds Sania Mirza-Ivan Dodig in the quarter-final and third seeds Andrea Hlaváčková and Édouard Roger-Vasselin in the semi-final. 

For Bopanna, it was a result of years of hard work and never-give-up attitude. Seven years ago he reached the finals of the 2010 US Open along with his Pakistani doubles partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi where they gave the toughest challenge possible to the Bryan brothers - two consecutive tie-breaks that went down to the wire. The brothers incidentally crashed out in the fourth round itself in this year's French Open. As for Bopanna’s Columbian partner, it’s a moment of history, becoming the first Canadian woman to win a Grand Slam, bettering even the success of her more famous Canadian peers - Milas Raonic and Eugenie Bouchard. 

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