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Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson defeat the world’s prime workforce 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 at present 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.

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 turn into solely the third all-Australian workforce to advance to a US Open males’s doubles semifinal previously 40 years and the primary to achieve this stage in 28 years.

US Open males’s doubles
All-Australian semifinalists previously 40 years
Group Yr
Todd Woodbridge/Mark Woodforde 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996
Mark Philippoussis/Pat Rafter 1996
Max Purcell/Jordan Thompson 2024

Purcell and Thompson subsequent play the thirteenth seeds, American duo Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow, for a spot within the ultimate.

The Aussie pair want to advance to their second Grand Slam ultimate as a workforce, having completed runners-up at Wimbledon earlier this 12 months.

“We would like the title this time,” Purcell advised Stan Sport after their quarterfinal win.

In ladies’s doubles motion, the profitable run of Ellen Perez and American accomplice 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 accomplice Vittoria Paganetti have 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

Girls’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 [13] Nathaniel Lammons (USA)/Jackson Withrow (USA)

> VIEW: US Open 2024 males’s doubles draw

Women’ singles, third spherical
[1] Emerson Jones (AUS) v Mika Stojsavljevic (GBR)

> VIEW: US Open 2024 ladies’ singles draw

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