Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna and its partners in Australia Matthew Ebden will face the Italian duo Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori in the match Australian Open Tennis 2024 men's doubles final at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday.

Rohan Bopanna-Matthew Ebden vs. Simone Bolelli-Andrea Vavassori Australian Open men's doubles final is scheduled to start at 15:15 Indian Standard Time on January 27. Watch the match live and broadcast in India.

This will be the second consecutive Grand Slam final for Bopanna and Ebden, after reaching the final of the US Open last year.

At AO 2024, the second seeds defeated two Australian wildcard pairs in the first two rounds and defeated 14th seeds Wesley Koolhof/Nikola Mektic in the third round. Bopanna and Ebden beat Argentine sixth seeds Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni in the quarter-finals before beating Zhang Zhizhen and Tomas Machac in a three-set thriller to earn a place in the final.

Meanwhile, unseeded Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori beat Germany's Yannick Hanfmann and Dominik Koepfer in the semifinals on Thursday. Their biggest win at the 2024 Australian Open came against eighth seeds from Germany Tim Puetz and Kevin Krawietz in the quarter-finals.

Rohan Bopanna, 43, will become the oldest No. 1 player in men's doubles history next week and could also become the oldest tennis player to win a Grand Slam in the Open era if he lifts the trophy on Saturday. Bopanna is already the oldest player to reach a Grand Slam final, breaking her US Open record last year.

This will be Rohan Bopanna's first men's doubles final at the Australian Open and third at a Grand Slam. He reached the men's doubles final of the 2010 US Open with Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and the 2023 US Open with Ebden, but lost both times.

The Indian tennis player, whose only Grand Slam title was won at the 2017 French Open in mixed doubles, has participated in the Australian Open finals in 2018 and 2023 but in mixed doubles.

The place to watch the 2024 Australian Open men's doubles final live in India

The Rohan Bopanna-Matthew Ebden vs Simone Bolelli-Andrea Vavassori Australian Open 2024 men's doubles final will be broadcast live on Sony TEN 3, Sony TEN 3 HD, Sony Sports Ten 4, Sony Sports Ten 4 HD, Sony TEN 5 and Sony TEN. 5 HD TV Channels in India.

Live streaming of the 2024 Australian Open men's doubles final will be available on SonyLIV.