{"id":18910,"date":"2023-10-15T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=18910"},"modified":"2023-10-15T22:38:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T14:38:20","slug":"ebden-and-bopara-qualify-for-prestigious-atp-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2023\/10\/15\/ebden-and-bopara-qualify-for-prestigious-atp-finals","title":{"rendered":"Ebden and Bopara Qualify for Prestigious ATP Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Australia&#8217;s Matt Ebden and India&#8217;s Rohan Bopanna secured their place at the season-ending championships with a finals appearance in Shanghai.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Australian Matt Ebden and Indian partner Rohan Bopanna have finished runners-up in the 2023 Shanghai Masters doubles competition.<\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s Marcel Granollers and Argentina\u2019s Horacio Zeballos spoiled Ebden and Bopanna\u2019s quest to win a second ATP Masters 1000 title of the season, edging out a 5-7 6-2 [10-7] in today\u2019s final.<\/p>\n<p>Only one point separated the two teams in the 82-minute championship match, with world No.13 Zeballos and world No.14 Granollers winning 59 points to Ebden and Bopanna\u2019s 58.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great to play the final,\u201d Ebden said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t to be today \u2026 (Zeballos and Granollers) are a good team, hopefully we\u2019ll get them next time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the loss, Ebden and Bopanna have secured their place at the ATP Finals in Turin next month.<\/p>\n<p>It will be Ebden\u2019s debut at the prestigious season-ending championships, which is reserved for the year\u2019s top-eight performing teams.<\/p>\n<p>Since teaming up for the first time in January, 35-year-old Ebden and 43-year-old Bopanna have won two titles from five finals appearances. This includes a runner-up finish at last month\u2019s US Open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took, you know, a few tournaments to get going, but I think the biggest key was having trust in each other\u2019s game and slowly building from that,\u201d Bopanna said.<\/p>\n<p>Ebden and Bopanna\u2019s immediate attention now turns to an ATP 500 tournament in Tokyo next week, where they are the top seeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s Matt Ebden and India&#8217;s Rohan Bopanna secured their place at the season-ending championships with a finals appearance in Shanghai. Australian Matt Ebden and Indian partner Rohan Bopanna have finished runners-up in the 2023 Shanghai Masters doubles competition. Spain\u2019s Marcel Granollers and Argentina\u2019s Horacio Zeballos spoiled Ebden and Bopanna\u2019s quest to win a second ATP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":18911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}