Saville serves up doubles victory at US Open 2023 | 31 August, 2023 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

Daria Saville has notched one other spectacular victory in her comeback from knee surgical procedure.

The 29-year-old Australian and her Russian associate Irina Khromacheva have superior to the second spherical within the US Open 2023 girls’s doubles competitors.

They comfortably dismissed American wildcards Fiona Crawley and Carson Tanguilig in first-round motion in the present day at Flushing Meadows.

Saville and Khromacheva misplaced solely 10 factors on serve and didn’t face a break level of their 6-2 6-2 victory.

It marks the primary time in six years (since US Open 2017) that Saville has scored opening-round wins at a Grand Slam event in each singles and doubles.

Ellen Perez and American associate Nicole Melichar-Martinez have made a commanding begin to their US Open marketing campaign too.

The No.3 seeds scored a 6-1 6-2 opening-round victory towards Argentina’s Nadia Podoroska and Egyptian Mayar Sherif.

World No.13 Perez and world No.11 Melichar-Martinez struck 25 winners to 9 and have been unbroken on serve within the swift 61-minute encounter.

Perez and Melichar-Martinez, who have been US Open semifinalists final 12 months, have now received seven of their previous 10 matches.

In a significant upset, second seeds Storm Hunter and Elise Mertens misplaced within the opening spherical.

American Danielle Collins and Ukrainian Nadiia Kichenok posted a 6-4 6-3 victory towards the Wimbledon 2023 finalists.

That is world No.3 Hunter’s first opening-round doubles lack of the season.

In males’s doubles motion, French duo Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert proved too robust for Australian Alexei Popyrin and his Hungarian associate Marton Fucsovics.

5-time main champions Mahut and Herbert recorded a 6-3 6-2 victory.

Aussies in motion – US Open

RESULTS
Girls’s doubles, first spherical
[3] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) d Nadia Podoroska (ARG)/Mayar Sherif (EGY) 6-1 6-2
Daria Saville (AUS)/Irina Khromacheva d [WC] Fiona Crawley (USA)/Carson Tanguilig (USA) 6-2 6-2
Danielle Collins (USA)/Nadiia Kichenok (UKR) d [2] Storm Hunter (AUS)/Elise Mertens (BEL) 6-4 6-3

Males’s doubles, first spherical
Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)/Nicolas Mahut (FRA) d Alexei Popyrin (AUS)/Marton Fucsovics (HUN) 6-3 6-2

COMING UP
Girls’s doubles, second spherical
[3] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) v TBC
Daria Saville (AUS)/Irina Khromacheva v [14] Marta Kostyuk (UKR)/Elena-Gabriela Ruse (ROU)