India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden, continuing their dream run, entered the final of the US Open with a straight-set win over the French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut here on Thursday.

This will be Bopanna’s second appearance in a grand slam men’s doubles final.

The sixth-seeded Indo-Australian pair, who had reached the semi-finals of the Wimbledon Championships this year where they had lost to Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski, beat the French combination 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 in the semi-finals of the hard court major.

With this feat, the Indian, who is 43 years and six months old, also became the oldest player to reach a grand slam final in the Open era. Bopanna beat the record of Daniel Nestor of Canada, who was 43 years and 4 months when he played in a grand slam final.

Interestingly, it was also in the US Open where Bopanna competed in his maiden major final way back in 2010 along with Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi.

Bopanna and Ebden had saved seven set points in the opening set before downing Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow to enter the semi-finals.

The duo beat the American combo 7-6 (10) 6-1 in the quarter finals of the hard court major.

Bopanna is already out of the mixed doubles event with a second round defeat with Indonesian partner Aldila Sutjiadi.