NEW YORK, Sep 9: The No. 3 seeds Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury beat Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Friday.
Ram and Salisbury were having a difficult year, struggling to win even a couple matches in a row.
Everything changed once they returned to the US Open, where Ram and Salisbury dominate like no men’s team in 110 years.
“We knew we were having a tough time. But we put in the work starting kind of after Wimbledon was over, “Ram said, ”(realizing) that, this is the tournament that we know we can play well at, proven it before, and it wasn’t going to happen by accident.”
Ram and Salisbury extended their winning streak at Flushing Meadows to 18 matches. They are the first men’s team to win three straight US Opens since Americans Tom Bundy and Maurice McLoughlin from 1912-14.
Ram and Salisbury arrived in New York on a three-match losing streak and acknowledged losing some confidence. That’s partly why Salisbury, from Britain, cried into a towel on his chair after the match ended.
The No. 3 seeds were in early trouble on Friday before recovering to prevent the 43-year-old Bopanna from becoming the oldest Grand Slam men’s doubles champion.
The women’s doubles final Sunday will be No. 12 Laura Siegemund and Vera Zvonareva against No. 16 Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe.
Siegemund and Zvonareva won the US Open title in 2020 in their first time playing together. (AP)
