Ebden achieves 19-year first in Wimbledon gents’s doubles | 12 July, 2023 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

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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