Australians file promising begins in doubles at Roland Garros 2024 | 1 June, 2024 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

From spectacular breakthroughs to gorgeous comebacks, Australian gamers have made a memorable begin within the Roland Garros 2024 doubles occasions.

Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson improved their season file as a group to 18 wins from 21 matches, nevertheless wanted three units to subdue alternates Swede Andre Goransson and David Pel of the Netherlands.

The all-Australian duo scored a hard-fought 6-7(7) 6-3 6-4 victory to arrange a second-round showdown with the No.7 seeds, Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands and Croatian Nikola Mektic.

World No.9 Koolhof and world No.22 Mektic are the one different group to win three ATP doubles titles to date this season.

Rinky Hijikata achieved a milestone consequence alongside Argentina’s Guido Andreozzi, with the first-time pairing edging out a 7-6(5) 6-4 victory in opposition to Colombian Nicolas Barrientos and Portugal’s Francisco Cabral.

That is 23-year-old Hijikata’s career-first win at Roland Garros at skilled degree. His has solely earlier match win on the event got here in juniors in 2018, when he reached the second spherical of the boys’ singles competitors as a 17-year-old.

John Friends, a former world No.2, additionally scored an opening-round victory partnering Roman Safiullin. That is the tenth time, from 12 appearances, that the 35-year-old Friends has progressed to the second spherical in a Roland Garros males’s doubles draw.

Ellen Perez and American associate Nicole Melichar-Martinez made a successful begin to their marketing campaign within the ladies’s doubles competitors – nevertheless it wasn’t and not using a scare.

The second seeds squandered a 4-1 benefit within the opening set of their first-round assembly with Brazilian Ingrid Gamarra Martins and Brit Olivia Nicholls, dropping six of the following seven video games to search out themselves in a precarious place.

Nonetheless, the co-ranked world No.7s had been quickly in a position to regain management and shut out a 5-7 6-2 6-1 victory.

The 28-year-old Perez returned later within the day to submit a first-round victory in blended doubles too, teaming with fellow Aussie Matt Ebden to triumph 6-2 6-4 in opposition to French wildcards Tessah Andrianjafitrimo and Ugo Humbert.

That is Perez’s first-ever blended doubles win in Paris.

Matt Ebden and Ellen Perez have fun their first-round blended doubles win in Paris. Image: Tennis Australia

Aussies in motion – Roland Garros

RESULTS
Males’s doubles, first spherical
Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) d [Alt] Andre Goransson (SWE)/David Pel (NED) 6-7(7) 6-3 6-4
John Friends (AUS)/Roman Safiullin d Yuki Bhambri (IND)/Albano Olivetti (FRA) 6-3 7-6(5)
Rinky Hijikata (AUS)/Guido Andreozzi (ARG) d Nicolas Barrientos (COL)/Francisco Cabral (POR) 7-6(5) 6-4

Girls’s doubles, first spherical
[2] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) d Ingrid Gamarra Martins (BRA)/Olivia Nicholls (GBR) 5-7 6-2 6-1
[16] Miyu Kato (JPN)/Nadiia Kichenok (UKR) d Daria Saville (AUS)/Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) 6-2 6-3

Combined doubles, first spherical
[1] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Matt Ebden (AUS) d [WC] Tessah Andrianjafitrimo (FRA)/Ugo Humbert (FRA) 6-2 6-4

COMING UP
Males’s singles, third spherical
[11] Alex de Minaur (AUS) v Jan-Lennard Struff (GER)
Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) v [12] Taylor Fritz (USA)