Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson defeat the world’s prime crew to safe their semifinal spot within the US Open 2024 males’s doubles competitors.
New York, USA, 4 September 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson have scored a serious upset to progress to the US Open 2024 males’s doubles semifinals.
The seventh-seeded Australians scored a 7-6(4) 6-4 victory towards the co-ranked world No.1s, Spain’s Marcel Granollers and Argentina’s Horacio Zeballos, in males’s doubles quarterfinal motion right now at Flushing Meadows.
That is their second straight-sets victory towards the top-seeded pairing of Granollers and Zeballos in a Grand Slam this season, having additionally crushed them within the Wimbledon semifinals.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Purcell and Thompson knock out No.1 seeds Granollers and Zeballos to succeed in the semis 🇦🇺 pic.twitter.com/VsNm0lgDQn
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 3, 2024
This continues a career-best US Open run for world No.13 Thompson and world No.18 Purcell, thrusting them into their first doubles semifinal in New York.
With this effort, Purcell and Thompson change into solely the third all-Australian crew to advance to a US Open males’s doubles semifinal up to now 40 years and the primary to succeed in this stage in 28 years.
| US Open males’s doubles All-Australian semifinalists up to now 40 years |
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| Group | 12 months |
| Todd Woodbridge/Mark Woodforde | 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996 |
| Mark Philippoussis/Pat Rafter | 1996 |
| Max Purcell/Jordan Thompson | 2024 |
Purcell and Thompson’s semifinal opponent is but to be determined. They’ll play both the No.11 seeds, Wesley Koolhof of Netherlands and Nikola Mektic of Croatia, or the thirteenth seeds, American duo Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow.
The Aussie pair want to advance to their second Grand Slam remaining as a crew, having completed runners-up at Wimbledon earlier this yr.
In girls’s doubles motion, the profitable run of Ellen Perez and American companion Nicole Melichar-Martinez got here to an finish within the quarterfinals.
France’s Kristina Mladenovic and China’s Zhang Shuai scored a hard-fought 7-6(2) 6-4 victory towards the fifth seeds.
In the meantime, Emerson Jones and her Italian companion Vittoria Paganetti had been ousted within the opening spherical of the women’ doubles competitors.
The 16-year-old Jones now turns her consideration to the women’ singles competitors, the place she has superior to the third spherical.
Aussies in motion – US Open
RESULTS
Males’s doubles, quarterfinals
[7] Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) d [1] Marcel Granollers (ESP)/Horacio Zeballos (ARG) 7-6(4) 6-4
Ladies’s doubles, quarterfinals
Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)/Zhang Shuai (CHN) d [5] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) 7-6(2) 6-4
Women’ doubles, first spherical
Lucie Urbanova (CZE)/Antonia Vergara Rivera (CHI) d [2] Emerson Jones (AUS)/Vittoria Paganetti (ITA) 6-3 6-0
COMING UP
Males’s singles, quarterfinals
[10] Alex de Minaur (AUS) v [25] Jack Draper (GBR)
> VIEW: US Open 2024 males’s singles draw
Males’s doubles, semifinals
[7] Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) v TBC
> VIEW: US Open 2024 males’s doubles draw
Women’ singles, third spherical
[1] Emerson Jones (AUS) v Mika Stojsavljevic (GBR)
> VIEW: US Open 2024 women’ singles draw
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