Aussie girls having fun with greatest ends in 18 years at Australian Open 2024 | 17 January, 2024 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

9 Australian girls have progressed to the second spherical within the Australian Open 2024 girls’s doubles competitors.

That is essentially the most to achieve this stage since 2006. That quantity may nonetheless rise too, with world No.17 Ellen Perez but to play her opening-round match.

If Perez additionally progresses, it will mark the primary time in 31 years that 10 Aussies have superior to the second spherical in an Australian Open girls’s doubles draw.

Wildcards shine

Gold Coast abilities Kimberly Birrell and Olivia Gadecki required solely 59 minutes to energy previous American Sabrina Santamaria and France’s Varvara Gracheva of their opening-round encounter.

Fellow wildcards Daria Saville and Ajla Tomljanovic have been equally environment friendly, taking simply 71 minutes to notch a 6-4 6-3 victory towards Georgia’s Oksana Kalashnikova and Brit Maia Lumsden.

Earlier within the day, Destanee Aiava broke by to document her career-first Grand Slam doubles win.

The 23-year-old teamed with fellow Aussie Maddison Inglis to triumph 1-6 6-1 6-2 towards Italians Elisabetta Cocciaretto and Martina Trevisan.

Aiava and Inglis, the winner of three Australian Professional Tour titles collectively final 12 months, now meet world No.1 Storm Hunter and her Czech companion Katerina Siniakova within the second spherical.

Gallant efforts

Priscilla Hon and Talia Gibson bowed out in a three-set battle towards Czech Linda Noskova and China’s Wang Xiyu.

The Aussie wildcards tallied extra winners and received extra factors, but it surely wasn’t sufficient to get them throughout the road.

In males’s doubles motion, Aussie wildcards James McCabe and Dane Sweeny got here near recording a serious upset towards the seventh seeds, world No.15 Hugo Nys and world No.17 Jan Zielinksi.

The Australian Open 2023 finalists finally triumphed 6-7(5) 7-5 6-2 in a two-hour and 14-minute tussle.

Aussies in motion – Australian Open

TODAY’S RESULTS
Girls’s doubles, first spherical
[WC] Kimberly Birrell (AUS)/Olivia Gadecki (AUS) d Varvara Gracheva (FRA)/Sabrina Santamaria (USA) 6-0 6-3
[WC] Daria Saville (AUS)/Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) d Oksana Kalashnikova (GEO)/Maia Lumsden (GBR) 6-4 6-3
[WC] Destanee Aiava (AUS)/Maddison Inglis (AUS) d Elisabetta Cocciaretto (ITA)/Martina Trevisan (ITA) 1-6 6-1 6-2
Linda Noskova (CZE)/Wang Xiyu (CHN) d [WC] Talia Gibson (AUS)/Priscilla Hon (AUS) 3-6 6-3 6-4

Males’s doubles, first spherical
[7] Hugo Nys (MON)/Jan Zielinksi (POL) d [WC] James McCabe (AUS)/Dane Sweeny (AUS) 6-7(5) 7-5 6-2

COMING UP
Girls’s doubles, first spherical
[7] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) v Wu Fang-Hsien (TPE)/Zhu Lin (CHN)

Girls’s doubles, second spherical
[3] Storm Hunter (AUS)/Katerina Siniakova (CZE) v [WC] Destanee Aiava (AUS)/Maddison Inglis (AUS)
[WC] Kimberly Birrell (AUS)/Olivia Gadecki (AUS) v [11] Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR)/Jelena Ostapenko (LAT)
[WC] Taylah Preston (AUS)/Arina Rodionova (AUS) v Ekaterina Alexandrova/Anna Kalinskaya
[WC] Daria Saville (AUS)/Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) v TBC