{"id":257507,"date":"2025-11-02T12:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257507\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:04:16","slug":"rohan-bopanna-announces-retirement-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257507\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohan Bopanna announces retirement | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Rohan Bopanna<br \/>\n    Rohan Bopanna announces retirement <\/p>\n<p>Indian won 26 tour-level titles and reached No. 1 in the PIF ATP Doubles Rankings<\/p>\n<p>November 01, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rohan-bopanna-paris-2025-final-match.jpg\" alt=\"Rohan Bopanna in his final match at the 2025 Rolex Paris Masters.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Corinne Dubreuil\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n<p>        Rohan Bopanna in his final match at the 2025 Rolex Paris Masters.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/rohan-bopanna\/b757\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rohan Bopanna<\/a>, the former No. 1 player in the PIF ATP Doubles Rankings, announced his retirement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian star amassed 26 tour-level doubles titles during his career, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/australian-open\/580\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a> in 2024 with Mattew Ebden. With that triumph, Bopanna rose to World No. 1 for the first time and became the oldest man to do so at 43 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you bid farewell to something that gave your life its meaning? After 20 unforgettable years on tour, however, it\u2019s my time\u2026 I\u2019m officially hanging up my racquet,\u201d the 45-year-old Bopanna wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTennis hasn\u2019t been just a game for me &#8211; It has given me purpose when I was lost, strength when I was broken and belief when the world doubted me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bopanna won doubles titles with 15 different players across his career, which began in 2003. He won his first crown with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/eric-butorac\/bc35\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Butorac<\/a> in 2008 in Los Angeles and went on to accumulate 539 tour-level wins, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, he reached his first major final at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/us-open\/560\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/aisam-ul-haq-qureshi\/q019\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi<\/a> and then fell short at the same stage in New York in 2023 with Ebden. However, at the following Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne, Bopanna and Ebden turned heartbreak into glory by winning their first major title.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/it-all-adds-up-hub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It All Adds Up\" style=\"width:100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762085056_798_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bopanna was also a runner-up at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/nitto-atp-finals\/605\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> in 2012 and 2015 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/mahesh-bhupathi\/b471\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mahesh Bhupathi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/florin-mergea\/mb27\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florin Mergea<\/a>, respectively. The Indian won his lone mixed doubles Grand Slam title at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/roland-garros\/520\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roland Garros<\/a> in 2017 with Gabriela Dabrowski.<\/p>\n<p>He most recently competed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/paris\/352\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rolex Paris Masters<\/a>, where he partnered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/alexander-bublik\/bk92\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Bublik<\/a> in a 5-7, 6-2, 8-10 first-round defeat to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/john-peers\/pc96\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Peers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/jj-tracy\/t0fz\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JJ Tracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rohan Bopanna Rohan Bopanna announces retirement Indian won 26 tour-level titles and reached No. 1 in the PIF&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-257507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}