Matt Ebden scores a first-round win within the Wimbledon 2024 males’s doubles competitors alongside Indian accomplice Rohan Bopanna.
London, Nice Britain, 4 July 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Savouring the second is the main target for Matt Ebden at Wimbledon this yr.
The 36-year-old from Perth is competing on the prestigious grass-court Grand Slam for the primary time because the world’s top-ranked doubles participant.
“To be the No.1 participant on the earth within the draw could be very cool,” Ebden advised tennis.com.au after finishing a first-round males’s doubles win alongside Indian Rohan Bopanna in the present day.
“It’s one thing we aspire to our life complete and profession. You’re continuously pushing, climbing, evaluating, reviewing and enhancing. Now to have the ability to sit there on the prime of the mountain and revel in it for a second, it’s form of good.”
Since switching his focus to full-time doubles in 2022, Ebden has loved a meteoric stand up the ATP Tour rankings.
He was the world No.31 when he received the Wimbledon males’s doubles title with compatriot Max Purcell in 2022 and had improved to world No.16 when he progressed to the semifinals the next yr alongside Bopanna.
Now sitting at No.1, Ebden returns to Wimbledon as the primary top-ranked Australian males’s doubles participant since Todd Woodbridge 23 years earlier.
“I feel as I bought extra into my 30s I began to take inventory and began to verify I loved issues much more,” stated the enduring Ebden, who contested his first Wimbledon in 2010.
“It’s an vital a part of life, being grateful for what you’re doing and what you might have. Then additionally remembering to rejoice and savour these moments.”
Initially scheduled to face French mixture Adrian Mannarino and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard of their first-round match in the present day, Ebden and Bopanna found throughout their warm-up they might play an alternate staff as a substitute.
“It was a whirlwind,” Ebden defined, as their coaches chased data on who would exchange the French pair within the draw.
The second seeds and reigning Australian Open champions ended up going through a Dutch duo, world No.78 Sander Arends and world No.56 Robin Haase.
“They’re very achieved doubles gamers, so I don’t know if our draw bought simpler or more durable,” Ebden stated. “Then coping with the rain delays too, it was a tough day.”
But Ebden and Bopanna dealt with these challenges with aplomb, carving out a 7-5 6-4 victory to creating a successful begin to their marketing campaign.
Aussies in motion – Wimbledon
RESULTS
Males’s doubles, first spherical
[2] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) d [Alt] Sander Arends (NED)/Robin Haase (NED) 7-5 6-4
COMING UP
Males’s doubles, first spherical
[15] Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) v [WC] Jay Clarke (GBR)/Marcus Willis (GBR)
Rinky Hijikata (AUS)/John Friends (AUS) v [WC] Andy Murray (GBR)/Jamie Murray (GBR)
John-Patrick Smith (AUS)/Andreas Mies (GER) v Victor Cornea (ROU)/Fabian Marozsan (HUN)
Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS)/Denis Shapovalov (CAN) v Nicolas Mahut (FRA)/Skander Mansouri (TUN)
Males’s doubles, second spherical
[2] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) v Constantin Frantzen (GER)/Hendrik Jebens (GER)
> VIEW: Wimbledon 2024 males’s doubles draw
Ladies’s doubles, first spherical
[3] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) v [WC] Sarah Beth Gray (GBR)/Tara Moore (GBR)
Daria Saville (AUS)/Yuan Yue (CHN) v [9] Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR)/Jelena Ostapenko (LAT)
> VIEW: Wimbledon 2024 girls’s doubles draw
Blended doubles, first spherical
[1] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Ellen Perez (AUS) v Andres Molteni (ARG)/Asia Muhammad (USA)
John Friends (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) v [3] Mate Pavic (CRO)/Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR)
Max Purcell (AUS)/Dayana Yastremska (UKR) v Nathaniel Lammons (USA)/Ena Shibahara (JPN)
> VIEW: Wimbledon 2024 blended doubles draw
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