Kimberly Birrell, a winner in each her AO 2025 girls’s doubles and combined doubles matches, was amongst Aussie winners at Melbourne Park on Friday
Melbourne, VIC, 17 January 2025 | Jackson Mansell
Kimberly Birrell accomplished the doubles double on Day 6 of Australian Open 2025.
In girls’s doubles motion on Friday afternoon, Birrell, alongside Olivia Gadecki, grew to become the primary Australian duo to advance to the third spherical. The wildcard pair improved on their second-round exit at Australian Open 2024 defeating Norwegian Ulrikke Eikeri and Japan’s Makoto Ninomiya 6-3 7-5.
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Birrell and Gadecki are the primary all-Australian girls’s pair since Ash Barty and Casey Dellacqua in 2017 to succeed in the third spherical at Melbourne Park.
> VIEW: Australian Open 2025 girls’s doubles draw
They arrange a possible third-round conflict with WTA Finals contributors Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini.
Birrell then teamed up with doubles world No.69 John-Patrick Smith to prevail towards Hao-Ching Chan and Marcelo Melo 7-6(5) 6-3. The pair joined Priscilla Hon and Alex Bolt within the second spherical after they defeated Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jamie Murray on Thursday.
> MORE: Australian Open 2025 combined doubles draw
Reigning Newcombe Medal winner Matt Ebden was the most important casualty on Friday after he bowed out within the first spherical. In his first main with new accomplice Joran Vliegen, the ninth seeds misplaced to skilled American pair Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram 6-1 6-4.
> VIEW: Australian Open 2025 males’s doubles draw
John Friends, Marc Polmans and Matthew Romios additionally fell quick of their quests to maintain Australia’s three-year streak of getting a males’s doubles champion alive.
Daria and Luke Saville bowed out of AO 2025, the duo misplaced their opening spherical combined doubles match 6-4 6-0 to Irina Khromacheva and Jackson Withrow.
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Aussies in motion – Australian Open
TODAY’S RESULTS
Males’s doubles, first spherical
Austin Krajicek (USA)/Rajeev Ram (USA) d [9] Matthew Ebden (AUS)/Joran Vliegen (BEL) 6-1 6-4
Girls’s doubles, first spherical
[4] Sara Errani (ITA)/Jasmine Paolini (ITA) d [WC] Priscilla Hon (AUS)/Daria Saville (AUS) 6-1 7-5
Marta Kostyuk (UKR)/Elena-Gabriela Ruse (BEL) d [WC] Destanee Aiava (AUS)/Maddison Inglis (AUS) 6-4 7-6(2)
Combined doubles, first spherical
[6] Su-Wei Hsieh [TPE]/Jan Zielinski (POL) d [WC] Emerson Jones (AUS)/Hayden Jones (AUS) 6-0 7-5
[7] Demi Schuurs (NED)/Tim Puetz (GER) d [WC] Taylah Preston (AUS)/Edward Winter (AUS) 7-6(3) 7-5
[WC] Kimberly Birrell (AUS)/John-Patrick Smith (AUS) d Hao-Ching Chan (TPE)/Marcelo Melo (BRA) 7-6(5) 6-3
Irina Khromacheva/Jackson Withrow (USA) v [WC] Daria Saville (AUS)/Luke Saville (AUS) 6-4 6-0
Males’s doubles, second spherical
[6] Harri Heliovaara (FIN)/Henry Patten (GBR) d [WC] Marc Polmans (AUS)/Matthew Romios (AUS) 7-6(2) 6-3
Tallon Griekspoor (NED)/Botic van de Zandschulp (NED) d [12] Jamie Murray (GBR)/John Friends (AUS) 7-5 6-2
Girls’s doubles, second spherical
[WC] Kimberly Birrell (AUS)/Olivia Gadecki (AUS) d Ulrikke Eikeri (NOR)/Makoto Ninomiya (JPN) 6-3 7-5
COMING UP
Combined doubles, first spherical
[1] Sara Errani (ITA)/Andrea Vavassori (ITA) v [WC] Destanee Aiava (AUS)/Omar Jasika (AUS)
[3] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Kevin Krawietz (GER) v Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR)/Sadio Doumbia (FRA)
[4] Taylor Townsend (USA)/Hugo Nys (POL) v [WC] Maddison Inglis (AUS)/Jason Kubler (AUS)
[WC] Olivia Gadecki (AUS)/John Friends (AUS) v Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA)/Robert Galloway (USA)
Males’s doubles, second spherical
[WC] Luke Saville (AUS)/Li Tu (AUS) v James Duckworth (AUS)/Aleksandar Vukic (AUS)
[WC] Tristan Schoolkate (AUS)/Adam Walton (AUS) v Austin Krajicek (USA)/Rajeev Ram (USA)
Girls’s doubles, second spherical
[6] Elise Mertens (BEL)/Ellen Perez (AUS) v Marta Kostyuk (UKR)/Elena-Gabriela Ruse (BEL)
Combined doubles, second spherical
[WC] Kimberly Birrell (AUS)/John-Patrick Smith (AUS) v [7] Demi Schuurs (NED)/Tim Puetz (GER)
[WC] Priscilla Hon (AUS)/Alex Bolt (AUS) v TBC
Girls’s doubles, third spherical
[WC] Kimberly Birrell (AUS)/Olivia Gadecki (AUS) v TBC
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