Roger Federer (L) and Rohan Bopanna© X (previously Twitter)
Rohan Bopanna made historical past by turning into the oldest tennis participant to say the No. 1 spot within the males’s doubles rankings simply days after claiming his maiden Australian Open title in the identical class. It was an enormous achievement for the 43-year-old who produced an excellent efficiency together with Matthew Ebden within the 12 months’s first Grand Slam. In a latest interplay, Bopanna spoke about his profession and recalled how he used to play cricket with legendary tennis star Roger Federer within the locker room at Wimbledon.
”There have been many instances the place we had been at Wimbledon within the locker room, you realize, Roger and I used to play cricket. I feel there have been 3 times we had been on the warm-up space with an analogous juncture as a result of we had been taking part in matches which had been comparable instances on completely different courts, and we occurred to be there.”
Bopanna confronted Federer in males’s singles tennis again in 2006 on the Halle Open first spherical and later, the 2 groups up for Indian Aces on the Worldwide Tennis Premier League (ITPL).
Through the interplay, Bopanna was all reward for the Swiss celebrity and mentioned that though he was a terrific champion, Federer interacted with all of the gamers and even understood them.
”I feel how he modified the game, not solely on the court docket however off the court docket as effectively,” Bopanna mentioned.
”He was any individual who communicated with all of the gamers, and understood them. Regardless that he was such a terrific champion, irrespective of the place he met some gamers, he was all the time wonderful.”
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