Aussie Matt Ebden is thru to the boys’s doubles ultimate at Australian Open 2024 alongside his Indian accomplice Rohan Bopanna.
Melbourne, Australia, 25 January 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Matt Ebden and Indian accomplice Rohan Bopanna will contest the boys’s doubles ultimate at Australian Open 2024.
The second seeds edged out Czech Tomas Machac and China’s Zhang Zhizhen in right this moment’s semifinals at Rod Laver Enviornment, recording a hard-fought 6-3 3-6 7-6(7) victory.
World No.4 Ebden and world No.3 Bopanna led 5-2 within the deciding set and had three match factors within the ninth sport, however the fearless Machac and Zhang refused to provide in.
However after two hours on courtroom, Ebden and Bopanna managed to shut out victory in a high-pressure match tiebreak.
This propels them into their second consecutive Grand Slam ultimate as a workforce.
“It was tremendous shut on the scoreboard, for certain,” Ebden stated.
“There have been numerous shut factors there, particularly within the second and third units. And I imply, what an epic third set. I’ve bought at hand it to my accomplice, we’ve been combating since spherical one. There’s been numerous robust moments, combating by way of one after the other in entrance of our house crowd and we couldn’t be happier.”
It marks the sixth time previously eight years that an Aussie participant has progressed to the Australian Open males’s doubles ultimate.
The 36-year-old Ebden additionally joins unique firm as solely the fifth Aussie to advance to a number of males’s doubles finals in Melbourne Park’s 36-year historical past.
| Australian Open males’s doubles Aussies to achieve a number of finals at Melbourne Park (since 1988) | |
| Participant | Years |
| Todd Woodbridge | 1992, 1997, 1998, 2001 |
| Mark Woodforde | 1992, 1997, 1998 |
| John Friends | 2017, 2019 |
| Max Purcell | 2020, 2022 |
| Matt Ebden | 2022, 2024 |
It’s Ebden’s fourth Grand Slam males’s doubles ultimate look in complete, having beforehand contested championship matches on the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2022 (with Max Purcell) and final yr’s US Open (with Bopanna).
Bopanna, who is thru to his third males’s doubles ultimate at Grand Slam degree, is aiming to win his first main title. If he does so, he’ll change into the oldest man to win a Grand Slam doubles title in historical past.
The enduring 43-year-old’s Australian Open efficiency means he’s already assured to make some historical past, as he’ll rise to the highest of the ATP Tour doubles rating subsequent week and change into the oldest first-time world No.1.
Ebden and Bopanna will face the Italian mixture of Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori within the ultimate.
The boys’s doubles ultimate can be performed on Saturday night, following the ladies’s singles ultimate.
Storm Hunter, in the meantime, got here tantalising near securing a primary Australian Open finals look, with Czech accomplice Katerina Siniakova earlier than falling to Hsieh Su-Wei and Elise Mertens in an exciting ladies’s doubles semifinal.
Hsieh and Mertens, the No.2 seeds, required two hours and 35 minutes to safe the 7-5 1-6 6-3 victory over the third-seeded Hunter and Siniakova.
It was a match of early momentum swings at Margaret Courtroom Enviornment, with Hunter and Siniakova racing to a 4-0 lead solely to drop the following 4 video games and with it, the 59-minute first set.
The Australian-Czech duo recovered to ship the competition right into a deciding third set, the place the turning level of a superb-quality battle got here as Siniakova dropped serve within the penultimate sport.
Helped by trademark shot-making from Hsieh, Mertens held serve to safe victory.
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TODAY’S RESULTS
Males’s doubles, semifinals
[2] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) d Tomas Machac (CZE)/Zhang Zhizhen (CHN) 6-3 3-6 7-6(7)
Girls’s doubles, semifinals
[2] Hsieh Su-wei (TPE)/Elise Mertens (BEL) d [3] Storm Hunter (AUS)/Katerina Siniakova (CZE) 7-5 1-6 6-3
Boys’ singles, quarterfinals
Jan Kumstat (CZE) d [16] Hayden Jones (AUS) 6-7(2) 6-3 7-5
COMING UP
Males’s doubles, ultimate
[2] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) v Simone Bolelli (ITA)/Andrea Vavassori (ITA)
Women’ singles, quarterfinals
[6] Emerson Jones (AUS) v [2] Sara Saito (JPN)
Quad wheelchair doubles, semifinals
[2] Heath Davidson (AUS)/Robert Shaw (CAN) v Andy Lapthorne (GBR)/David Wagner (USA)
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