Kimberly Birrell’s memorable summer time continues, as she and fellow Queenslander John-Patrick Smith took a step additional within the Australian Open 2025 combined doubles occasion.
Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 19 January 2025 | Matt Trollope
Queensland duo Kimberly Birrell and John-Patrick Smith have scored a big upset in the mixed doubles event to advance to the quarterfinals at AO 2025.
The wildcard pairing upset No.7 seeds Demi Schuurs and Tim Puetz 6-3 5-7 [10-8] at Margaret Court docket Area, which units up a showdown with at the very least one Australian at Melbourne Park.
That could possibly be Ellen Perez, the third seed together with German accomplice Kevin Krawietz, or fellow wildcards Priscilla Hon and Alex Bolt.
DRAW: Australian Open 2025 combined doubles
Hon and Bolt tackle Perez and Krawietz within the final match of Monday’s schedule at 1573 Area – with that quarterfinal place on the road.
In the meantime, Day 8 concluded in emotional style at Rod Laver Area when Luke Saville and Li Tu bowed out of the boys’s doubles occasion.
South Australians Saville and Tu, childhood pals, fell 6-3 6-4 within the third spherical to Andre Goransson and Sem Verbeek.
The night time match, at Rod Laver Area, marked the final of Saville’s 13-year professional profession.
It was the identical courtroom on which the previous world No.1 junior contested the AO 2020 males’s doubles ultimate with Max Purcell, his finest Grand Slam outcome.
Birrell additionally stays alive within the girls’s doubles occasion, the place she and fellow Aussie Olivia Gadecki are by way of to the third spherical.
Her doubles success at Melbourne Park has been the proper antidote to her heartbreaking singles loss, which got here after she’d reached the Brisbane Worldwide quarterfinals and gained by way of three rounds of AO 2025 qualifying.
Tallying her outcomes throughout singles and doubles, Birrell has constructed a superb 10-2 file through the Australian Summer time of Tennis.
She has an opportunity to enhance that additional with Smith, an skilled doubles campaigner who reached the Australian Open 2019 combined doubles ultimate with one other compatriot in Astra Sharma, and the boys’s doubles quarterfinals at Melbourne Park in 2021.
“Look, the very first thing in any doubles partnership is to choose a very good accomplice, and so when Kim mentioned sure once I requested her, I used to be thrilled,” Smith mentioned on courtroom. “I’m glad we may make it [through], and on to the following one.”
Added Birrell: “I truthfully have simply been having fun with each second out right here with JP, and following his lead.
“Tremendous glad that we get to come back out and play once more – we wish to keep in Melbourne for so long as attainable.”
Australian Open combined doubles continues to be an occasion wherein home-grown gamers thrive.
Since Smith and Sharma’s runner-up end six years in the past, Sam Stosur and Matt Ebden appeared within the 2021 ultimate earlier than Jaimee Fourlis and Jason Kubler gained by way of to the 2022 decider.
The final Australian champions had been Ebden and Jarmila Gajdosova, in 2013.
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