Doubles pair Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell are amongst six Australian gamers scheduled to compete on day eight at Roland Garros 2024.
Paris, France, 2 June 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell are on the verge of inflicting a significant upset within the Roland Garros males’s doubles competitors.
World No.36 Thompson and world No.33 Purcell have established themselves as one of many world’s greatest groups thus far in 2024, profitable 17 of their 20 matches collectively and scooping three ATP titles. But regardless of their red-hot type, they’re unseeded in Paris.
The Australian mixture are in a promising place towards one of the opposite top-performing groups this season, world No.9 Wesley Koolhof and world No.22 Nikola Mektic. Their second-round encounter was postponed yesterday attributable to inclement climate, with the rating tied at one-set apiece,
Resuming the match at one-all within the deciding set, Thompson and Purcell have an opportunity to eradicate the seventh seeds, who’re the one different workforce to win three ATP doubles titles thus far in 2024.
In the meantime, world No.3 Matt Ebden and world No.62 John-Patrick Smith are hoping to lastly start their respective campaigns within the males’s doubles competitors. Their first-round matches have been rescheduled a number of occasions over latest days, as rain continues to trigger havoc to the schedule on outdoors courts.
John Friends has a giant day forward too, with the enduring 35-year-old scheduled to play two matches.
The previous world No.2 has superior to the second spherical within the males’s doubles competitors alongside Roman Safiullin, the place they face co-ranked world No.18s Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen. The Tenth-seeded Belgians have been finalists in Paris final yr.
Friends will then contest a first-round combined doubles match, along with his American companion Nicole Melichar-Martinez, towards Gille and world No.9 Vera Zvonareva.
The Roland Garros Junior Championships additionally get underway on day eight, with 17-year-old Gold Coast expertise Hayden Jones that includes in first-round singles motion.
Jones is the No.6 seed, making him the highest-seeded Australian in a boys’ singles draw on the match since Alexei Popyrin seven years in the past.
> READ MORE: Jones siblings lead Australian cost in Roland Garros juniors
Roland Garros is broadcast reside in Australia on the 9 Community and Stan Sport, with protection starting at 6.30pm AEST.
Aussies in motion on day eight:
Males’s doubles, first spherical
[2] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) v [Alt] Orlando Luz (BRA)/Marcelo Zormann (BRA), Courtroom 5, second match
John-Patrick Smith (AUS)/Denys Molchanov (UKR) v Petros Tsitsipas (GRE)/Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE), Courtroom 7, fifth match
Males’s doubles, second spherical
Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) v [7] Wesley Koolhof (NED)/Nikola Mektic (CRO), Courtroom 2, first match (from 7pm AEST), 4-6 6-4 1-1 to complete
John Friends (AUS)/Roman Safiullin v [10] Sander Gille (BEL)/Joran Vliegen (BEL), Courtroom 4, first match (from 7pm AEST)
Blended doubles, first spherical
Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA)/John Friends (AUS) v [5] Vera Zvonareva/Sander Gille (BEL), Courtroom 4, fourth match
Boys’ singles, first spherical
[6] Hayden Jones (AUS) v [Q] Jan Klimas (CZE), Courtroom 13, second match
> VIEW: Full Roland Garros day eight schedule
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