Aussie data main doubles upset at Wimbledon 2024 | 8 July, 2024 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

John-Patrick Smith and his German accomplice Andreas Mies triggered a large upset immediately within the Wimbledon 2024 males’s doubles competitors, eliminating the thirds seed within the second spherical.

Smith and Mies carved out a formidable comeback to file a 4-6 6-3 6-2 victory in opposition to world No.5 Joe Salisbury and world No.6 Rajeev Ram.

“It was a terrific win, the extent was excessive all through,” Smith stated after beating the four-time Grand Slam champions.

This propels the 35-year-old from Townsville into the third spherical at Wimbledon for the primary time in his profession, snapping a six-match dropping streak in second-round matches within the course of.

“It feels nice,” Smith stated.

“As I become older, I admire each Wimbledon that I play. Nothing’s a given, so you possibly can by no means take a second like this with no consideration.”

The world No.65 is now hoping to proceed his finest run in a Grand Slam males’s doubles draw since reaching the Australian Open quarterfinals in 2021.

Smith and Mies’ third-round opponents are the fifteenth seeds, Australian duo Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson.

“The doubles draw is broad open now, a whole lot of the seeds have gone down,” Smith stated.

“It’s a disgrace we’re enjoying in all probability among the favorite groups early on. Clearly Rajeev and Joe are a very good staff on grass, then Thommo and Max are a terrific staff as properly. It doesn’t get any simpler that’s for positive.”

These are the final two remaining groups that includes Australians on this 12 months’s males’s doubles draw, after Rinky Hijikata and John Friends misplaced a decent three-set battle immediately in opposition to ninth seeds Neal Skupski and Michael Venus.

It was not a very good day for the third seeds within the girls’s doubles competitors both, with Ellen Perez and her American Nicole Melichar-Martinez bowing out within the second spherical.

Aussies in motion – Wimbledon

RESULTS
Males’s doubles, second spherical
John-Patrick Smith (AUS)/Andreas Mies (GER) d [3] Rajeev Ram (USA)/Joe Salisbury (GBR) 4-6 6-3 6-2
[9] Neal Skupski (GBR)/Michael Venus (NZL) d Rinky Hijikata (AUS)/John Friends (AUS) 6-4 6-7(5) 6-4

Girls’s doubles, second spherical
Timea Babos (HUN)/Nadiia Kichenok (UKR) d [3] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) 4-6 6-2 6-2

COMING UP
Males’s doubles, third spherical
[15] Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) v John-Patrick Smith (AUS)/Andreas Mies (GER)