Kokkinakis advances to 3rd spherical in doubles at US Open 2023 | 1 September, 2023 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

Australian gamers are producing spectacular ends in the US Open 2023 doubles competitions.

Thanasi Kokkinakis was among the many winners on day 5 at Flushing Meadows, transferring into the third spherical of the lads’s doubles competitors alongside Dutch accomplice Tallon Griekspoor.

Kokkinakis and Griekspoor carved out a hard-fought 4-6 6-4 6-4 victory towards Portugal’s Francisco Cabral and Brazilian Rafael Matos.

They fired 41 winners, together with 10 aces, within the one-hour and 54-minute battle.

That is 27-year-old Kokkinakis’ finest Grand Slam doubles end result since reaching the third spherical in New York final 12 months with Nick Kyrgios.

Matt Ebden and Indian accomplice Rohan Bopanna continued their spectacular march by the lads’s doubles draw too, scoring a 6-3 6-3 second-round victory towards Kazakhstan’s Andrey Golubev and Russian Roman Safiullin.

The sixth seeds clinched victory in 64 minutes and for the second match in a row, didn’t face a break level.

This propels world No.11 Ebden into the third spherical in New York for the third straight 12 months.

Within the combined doubles competitors, Ellen Perez and Dutch accomplice Jean-Julien Rojer started their marketing campaign with a 7-6(2) 7-6(7) triumph towards Chinese language Taipei’s Chan Hao-Ching and Brit Lloyd Glasspool.

The fifth-seeded duo saved a set level within the second-set tiebreak.

There was heartbreak by for defending champions Storm Hunter and John Friends, who crashed out within the opening spherical.

Czech Barbora Strycova and Mexican Santiago Gonzalez recorded a 2-6 7-6(5) [11-9] victory towards the Aussie duo.

Hunter and Friends got here inside two factors of victory in each the second set (main 5-4 within the tiebreak) and deciding match tiebreak (the place they held an 8-6 benefit), however couldn’t shut out the match.

Aussies in motion – US Open

RESULTS
Blended doubles, first spherical
[5] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) d Chan Hao-Ching (TPE)/Lloyd Glasspool (GBR) 7-6(2) 7-6(7)
Barbora Strycova (CZE)/Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) d Storm Hunter (AUS)/John Friends (AUS) 2-6 7-6(5) [11-9]

Girls’s doubles, second spherical
[14] Marta Kostyuk (UKR)/Elena-Gabriela Ruse (ROU) d Daria Saville (AUS)/Irina Khromacheva 6-2 6-2

Males’s doubles, second spherical
[6] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) d Andrey Golubev (KAZ)/Roman Safiullin 6-3 6-3
Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS)/Tallon Griekspoor (NED) d Francisco Cabral (POR)/Rafael Matos (BRA) 4-6 6-4 6-4

COMING UP
Blended doubles, second spherical
[5] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) v [WC] Robin Montgomery (USA)/Alex Michelsen (USA)