Purcell and Thompson make promising begin in doubles at US Open | 29 August, 2024 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson have made a successful begin within the US Open 2024 males’s doubles competitors.

The seventh seeds posted a 6-4 7-5 victory in opposition to American Marcos Giron and Botic van de Zandschulp in first-round motion right this moment at Flushing Meadows.

The Wimbledon finalists fought again from a 1-4 deficit within the second set, successful six of the ultimate seven video games to clinch victory in 93 minutes.

It continues the red-hot type of world No.13 Thompson and world No.18 Purcell, who’ve now received 32 of their 38 matches collectively this season.

In ladies’s doubles motion, world No.10 Ellen Perez and American accomplice Nicole Melichar-Martinez made an encouraging begin to their marketing campaign.

The fifth seeds, who’re teaming up at a 3rd consecutive US Open and trying to enhance on their semifinal look in 2022, recorded a 6-4 7-5 first-round victory in opposition to American wildcards McCartney Kessler and Sabrina Santamaria.

Perez is the final remaining Australian within the ladies’s doubles draw, after compatriots Olivia Gadecki (partnering Chinese language Taipei’s Wu Fang-Hsien) and Ajla Tomljanovic (partnering Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova) misplaced their opening-round matches.

John Friends and Czech accomplice Katerina Siniakova, who’re teaming up for the primary time, made a blistering begin within the blended doubles competitors.

They solely wanted 54 minutes to dismiss the Brazilian mixture Rafael Matos and Luisa Stefani, scoring a cushty 6-2 6-1 victory in opposition to the Australian Open 2023 champions.

Friends is aiming to win his second US Open blended doubles title, having beforehand triumphed alongside Australian Storm Hunter in 2022.

Aussies in motion – US Open

RESULTS
Males’s doubles, first spherical
[7] Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) d Marcos Giron (USA)/Botic van de Zandschulp (NED) 6-4 7-5

Ladies’s doubles, first spherical
[5] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) d [WC] McCartney Kessler (USA)/Sabrina Santamaria (USA) 6-4 7-5
Camila Osorio (COL)/Alycia Parks (USA) d Olivia Gadecki (AUS)/Wu Fang-Hsien (TPE) 6-4 6-7(6) 6-1
Petra Martic (CRO)/Shelby Rogers (USA) d Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS)/Viktoriya Tomova (BUL) 6-0 5-7 6-2

Blended doubles, first spherical
John Friends (AUS)/Katerina Siniakova (CZE) d Rafael Matos (BRA)/Luisa Stefani (BRA) 6-2 6-1

COMING UP
Males’s doubles, first spherical
[2] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) v Sander Arends (NED)/Robin Haase (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 [Alt] Alexandre Muller (FRA)/Sebastian Ofner (AUT)
Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS)/Tallon Griekspoor (NED) v [11] Wesley Koolhof (NED)/Nikola Mektic (CRO)

Males’s doubles, second spherical
[7] Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) v TBC