Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell are amongst 4 Australian gamers scheduled to compete on day 9 at US Open 2024.
New York, USA, 3 September 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Three Australians have the prospect to progress to doubles semifinals on day 9 at US Open 2024.
Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell tackle the world’s prime group, co-ranked No.1s Marcel Granollers of Spain and Horacio Zeballos, within the quarterfinals of the lads’s doubles competitors.
The 30-year-old Thompson is decided to brush off the frustration of his fourth-round singles loss to compatriot Alex de Minaur, along with his focus now on extending his career-best doubles run at Flushing Meadows.
“I’m taking part in a number of the greatest tennis I’ve performed, I simply run into a tricky opponent,” Thompson stated after his singles exit. “I had my possibilities however didn’t fairly get there. I’ll take quite a lot of confidence out of that and hopefully can take that to the doubles courtroom.”
World No.13 Thompson and world No.18 Purcell scored a straight-sets victory of their solely earlier assembly with the highest seeds, comfortably beating them within the Wimbledon semifinals in July.
Ellen Perez additionally has her eyes on securing a semifinal spot within the girls’s doubles competitors.
The 28-year-old Australian and her American accomplice Nicole Melichar-Martinez have charged into the quarterfinals with out dropping a set.
The fifth seeds will look to proceed this momentum once they open play at Louis Armstrong Stadium towards the unseeded duo of France’s Kristina Mladenovic and China’s Zhang Shuai.
Perez and Melichar-Martinez need to attain their second US Open semifinal in three years, having beforehand made the ultimate 4 in 2022.
In the meantime, Emerson Jones begins her marketing campaign within the ladies’ doubles competitors, the place she is teaming with Italian Vittoria Paganetti.
The second-seeded mixture need to enhance on semifinal appearances at Roland Garros and Wimbledon earlier this 12 months.
The promising 16-year-old Jones has already scored two wins in New York this week to progress to the third spherical within the ladies’ singles competitors.
> READ: Emerson Jones continues spectacular Grand Slam kind at US Open 2024
The US Open is broadcast reside in Australia on the 9 Community and Stan Sport, with protection starting from 1am AEST (from Wednesday 4 September).
Aussies in motion on day 9:
Girls’s doubles, quarterfinals
[5] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) v Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)/Zhang Shuai (CHN), Louis Armstrong Stadium, first match (from 1am AEST)
Males’s doubles, quarterfinals
[7] Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) v [1] Marcel Granollers (ESP)/Horacio Zeballos (ARG), Louis Armstrong Stadium, third match
Women’ doubles, first spherical
[2] Emerson Jones (AUS)/Vittoria Paganetti (ITA) v Lucie Urbanova (CZE)/Antonia Vergara Rivera (CHI), Courtroom 15, second match
> VIEW: Full US Open 2024 day 9 schedule
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