Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson defeat the world’s high group to safe their semifinal spot within the US Open 2024 males’s doubles competitors.
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This continues a career-best US Open run for world No.13 Thompson and world No.18 Purcell, thrusting them into their first doubles semifinal in New York.
With this effort, Purcell and Thompson turn out to be solely the third all-Australian group to advance to a US Open males’s doubles semifinal prior to now 40 years and the primary to achieve this stage in 28 years.
| US Open males’s doubles All-Australian semifinalists prior to now 40 years |
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| Crew | 12 months |
| Todd Woodbridge/Mark Woodforde | 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996 |
| Mark Philippoussis/Pat Rafter | 1996 |
| Max Purcell/Jordan Thompson | 2024 |
Purcell and Thompson subsequent play the thirteenth seeds, American duo Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow, for a spot within the closing.
The Aussie pair wish to advance to their second Grand Slam closing as a group, having completed runners-up at Wimbledon earlier this yr.
“We wish the title this time,” Purcell advised Stan Sport after their quarterfinal win.
In girls’s doubles motion, the profitable run of Ellen Perez and American companion Nicole Melichar-Martinez got here to an finish within the quarterfinals.
France’s Kristina Mladenovic and China’s Zhang Shuai scored a hard-fought 7-6(2) 6-4 victory in opposition to the fifth seeds.
In the meantime, Emerson Jones and her Italian companion Vittoria Paganetti had been ousted within the opening spherical of the ladies’ doubles competitors.
The 16-year-old Jones now turns her consideration to the ladies’ singles competitors, the place she has superior to the third spherical.
Aussies in motion – US Open
RESULTS
Males’s doubles, quarterfinals
[7] Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) d [1] Marcel Granollers (ESP)/Horacio Zeballos (ARG) 7-6(4) 6-4
Girls’s doubles, quarterfinals
Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)/Zhang Shuai (CHN) d [5] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) 7-6(2) 6-4
Women’ doubles, first spherical
Lucie Urbanova (CZE)/Antonia Vergara Rivera (CHI) d [2] Emerson Jones (AUS)/Vittoria Paganetti (ITA) 6-3 6-0
COMING UP
Males’s singles, quarterfinals
[10] Alex de Minaur (AUS) v [25] Jack Draper (GBR)
> VIEW: US Open 2024 males’s singles draw
Males’s doubles, semifinals
[7] Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) v [13] Nathaniel Lammons (USA)/Jackson Withrow (USA)
> VIEW: US Open 2024 males’s doubles draw
Women’ singles, third spherical
[1] Emerson Jones (AUS) v Mika Stojsavljevic (GBR)
> VIEW: US Open 2024 ladies’ singles draw
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