{"id":19684,"date":"2024-06-11T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T02:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=19684"},"modified":"2024-06-11T10:59:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T02:59:31","slug":"ebden-reclaims-number-one-ranking-with-career-best-roland-garros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2024\/06\/11\/ebden-reclaims-number-one-ranking-with-career-best-roland-garros","title":{"rendered":"Ebden Reclaims Number One Ranking with Career Best Roland Garros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matt Ebden\u2019s dream to become the first Australian to progress to a men\u2019s doubles final at Roland Garros in 24 years unfortunately didn&#8217;t come true this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old from Perth and his Indian partner Rohan Bopanna suffered their first Grand Slam loss of the season, bowing out in the men\u2019s doubles semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>In a rematch of this year\u2019s Australian Open final, Italians Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori turned the tables to record a\u00a07-5 2-6 6-2 victory.<\/p>\n<p>This ends a career-best run Ebden in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The result however\u00a0reclaimed the coveted world No.1 position for\u00a0 Ebden in the latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/rankings\/doubles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATP Tour doubles rankings<\/a>. This sees Ebden return to the top spot for the third time this season.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table\">\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\"><strong>AUSSIE TOP 10<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><em>Player<\/em><\/td>\n<td><em>Rank<\/em><\/td>\n<td><em>Move<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Matt Ebden<\/td>\n<td>No.1<\/td>\n<td>+2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Max Purcell<\/td>\n<td>No.31<\/td>\n<td>+2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jordan Thompson<\/td>\n<td>No.32<\/td>\n<td>+4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>John Peers<\/td>\n<td>No.45<\/td>\n<td>-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rinky Hijikata<\/td>\n<td>No.51<\/td>\n<td>+4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>John-Patrick Smith<\/td>\n<td>No.60<\/td>\n<td>+2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Matthew Romios<\/td>\n<td>No.120<\/td>\n<td>-3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Andrew Harris<\/td>\n<td>No.137<\/td>\n<td>-15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tristan Schoolkate<\/td>\n<td>No.142<\/td>\n<td>-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Calum Puttergill<\/td>\n<td>No.144<\/td>\n<td>-1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Ebden\u2019s dream to become the first Australian to progress to a men\u2019s doubles final at Roland Garros in 24 years unfortunately didn&#8217;t come true this year. The 36-year-old from Perth and his Indian partner Rohan Bopanna suffered their first Grand Slam loss of the season, bowing out in the men\u2019s doubles semifinals. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6414,"featured_media":19685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19684","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\/19684","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\/6414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}