On Thursday night, India’s Rohan Bopanna, 43, became the oldest Grand Slam doubles finalist in the Open era when he and partner Matthew Ebden stormed into the men’s doubles final at the US Open with a 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 win over the French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut. 

Bopanna beat the record previously held by Canada’s Daniel Nestor by two months.