Paris : The Indian-Canadian pair of Rohan Bopanna and Gabriela Dabrowski on Thursday came out with their best as they defeated the German-Colombian pair of Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Robert Farah in the final to clinch the French Open mixed doubles title in Paris.
The seventh-seeded Indo-Canadian pair staged a comeback after losing the opening set and defeated Lena Groenefeld and Farah 6-2, 2-6, 12-10 in a summit clash that lasted for one hour and six minutes at Court Philippe Chatrier.
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With the feat, Bopanna has now become?only the fourth Indian to win a Grand Slam title after Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza.
It was the only second time that the 37-year-old from Bengaluru made it to finals of the grand slam event.
Bopanna, with then partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan, finished runners-up in the 2010 US Open men’s doubles to the Bryan brothers.