Australian Matt Ebden and Indian associate Rohan Bopanna have progressed to the semifinals within the Wimbledon 2023 gents’s doubles competitors.
London, Nice Britain, 12 July 2023 | Leigh Rogers
Matt Ebden has superior to back-to-back gents’s doubles semifinals at Wimbledon.
After having fun with a title-winning run alongside compatriot Max Purcell final 12 months, the 35-year-old from Perth has progressed to the ultimate 4 as soon as once more with India’s Rohan Bopanna.
The sixth-seeded mixture survived a spirited problem from Dutch duo Tallon Griekspoor and Bart Stevens within the quarterfinals on the All England Membership in the present day, ultimately closing out a 6-7(3) 7-5 6-2 victory.
This extends world No.16 Ebden’s successful streak on the event to 10 matches.
Ebden joins unique firm with this effort.
He’s the seventeenth Australian to achieve back-to-back gents’s doubles semifinals at Wimbledon within the Open period and turns into the primary participant to realize the feat in 19 years.
The final to take action was Todd Woodbridge, who made three consecutive semifinals between 2002 and 2004.
Pat Money and Paul McNamee are the one different Australians to achieve a semifinal on the All England Membership, then return to that stage the next 12 months with a unique associate.
| Wimbledon gents’s doubles Australians to achieve consecutive semifinals in Open period | |
| Participant | Years |
| John Newcombe | 1968-70 |
| Tony Roche | 1968-70 |
| Roy Emerson | 1968-69 |
| Rod Laver | 1968-69 |
| John Cooper | 1972-73 |
| Neale Fraser | 1972-73 |
| Ross Case | 1976-77 |
| Geoff Masters | 1976-77 |
| John Alexander | 1977-78 |
| Phil Dent | 1977-78 |
| Paul McNamee | 1980-82, 1984-85 |
| Peter McNamara | 1980-82 |
| Pat Money | 1984-85 |
| John Fitzgerald | 1988-89 |
| Mark Woodforde | 1992-98 |
| Todd Woodbridge | 1992-98, 2002-04 |
| Matt Ebden | 2022-23 |
Prime seeds Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands and Brit Neal Skupski await within the semifinals.
These two groups have met 4 instances already this season, scoring two wins apiece.
Koolhof and Skupski, the co-ranked world No.2s, received their most up-to-date assembly in opposition to Ebden and Bopanna on the grass-courts at Queen’s Membership final month.
In quad wheelchair singles motion, Heath Davidson made a promising begin to his marketing campaign.
The world No.5 recorded a 6-2 6-4 victory in opposition to British wildcard Gregory Slade. This units up a semifinal showdown with defending champion Sam Schroder of the Netherlands.
Aussies in motion – Wimbledon
RESULTS
Gents’s doubles, quarterfinals
[6] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) d [Alt] Tallon Griekspoor (NED)/Bart Stevens (NED) 6-7(3) 7-5 6-2
Quad wheelchair singles, quarterfinals
Heath Davidson (AUS) d [WC] Gregory Slade (GBR) 6-2 6-4
COMING UP
Gents’s doubles, semifinals
[6] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) v [1] Wesley Koolhof (NED)/Neal Skupski (GBR)
> VIEW: Wimbledon 2023 gents’s doubles draw
Quad wheelchair singles, semifinals
Heath Davidson (AUS) v [2] Sam Schroder (NED)
Quad wheelchair doubles, semifinals
[2] Heath Davidson (AUS)/Robert Shaw (CAN) v Gregory Slade (GBR)/David Wagner (USA)
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