Wimbledon finalists Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell are amongst 10 Australians set to contest the doubles competitions at US Open 2024.
New York, USA, 26 August 2024 | Leigh Rogerssit at career-high rankings, have been pitted in opposition to American Marcos Giron and Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp within the opening spherical.
John Friends and Brit Jamie Murray are teaming up at a Grand Slam for the primary time in 9 years. The skilled duo, who have been finalists at Flushing Meadows of their final look collectively in 2015, made an encouraging begin to their reunion by reaching the semifinals at an ATP 250 match in Winston-Salem final week. The unseeded pair face Swede Andre Goransson and Dutchman Sam Verbeek within the opening spherical.
Thanasi Kokkinakis and his Dutch accomplice Tallon Griekspoor tackle the No.11 seeds, Dutchman Wesley Koolhof and Croatian Nikola Mektic, whereas John-Patrick Smith and his German accomplice Andrea Mies meet Czech Tomas Machac and China’s Zhang Zhizhen, who have been Australian Open semifinalists earlier this yr and took house the Olympic gold and silver medals respectively in combined doubles at Paris earlier this month.
Rinky Hijikata rounds out the Australian contenders alongside his British accomplice Lloyd Glasspool.
| US Open 2024 Males’s doubles, first spherical |
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| [2] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) | v | Sander Arends (NED)/Robin Haase (NED) |
| [7] Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) | v | Marcos Giron (USA)/Botic van de Zandschulp (NED) |
| John Friends (AUS)/Jamie Murray (GBR) | v | Andre Goransson (SWE)/Sam Verbeek (NED) |
| Rinky Hijikata (AUS)/Lloyd Glasspool (GBR) | v | Diego Hidalgo (COL)/Alejandro Tabilo (CHI) |
| John-Patrick Smith (AUS)/Andreas Mies (GER) | v | Tomas Machac (CZE)/Zhang Zhizhen (CHN) |
| Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS)/Tallon Griekspoor (NED) | v | [11] Wesley Koolhof (NED)/Nikola Mektic (CRO) |
> VIEW: Full US Open 2024 males’s doubles draw
World No.10 Ellen Perez leads the Australian cost within the girls’s doubles competitors.
The 28-year-old and American accomplice Nicole Melichar-Martinez are the fifth seeds and making their third consecutive US Open look as a staff.
Trying to enhance on a semifinal look in 2022, they start their 2024 marketing campaign in opposition to American wildcards McCartney Kessler and Sabrina Santamaria.
Olivia Gadecki (partnering Chinese language Taipei’s Wu Fang-Hsien) and Ajla Tomljanovic (teaming with Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova) additionally function within the draw.
| US Open 2024 Girls’s doubles, first spherical |
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| [5] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) | v | [WC] McCartney Kessler (USA)/Sabrina Santamaria (USA) |
| Olivia Gadecki (AUS)/Wu Fang-Hsien (TPE) | v | Camila Osorio (COL)/Alycia Parks (USA) |
| Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS)/Viktoriya Tomova (BUL) | v | Petra Martic (CRO)/Shelby Rogers (USA) |
> VIEW: Full US Open 2024 girls’s doubles draw
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