Ellen Perez and American associate Nicole Melichar-Martinez safe their spot within the US Open 2024 ladies’s doubles quarterfinals.
New York, USA, 3 September 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Ellen Perez and American associate Nicole Melichar-Martinez have superior to the quarterfinals within the US Open 2024 ladies’s doubles competitors.
The fifth seeds continued their spectacular march by way of the draw with a 6-2 6-4 victory towards the eleventh seeds, Czech Marie Bouzkova and Spaniard Sara Sorribes Tormo, in third-round motion immediately at Flushing Meadows.
But to drop a set up to now this event, world No.10 Perez and world No.14 Melichar-Martinez’s rising confidence confirmed within the 93-minute encounter.
They struck 34 winners to their opponent’s 19, serving to them advance to their fourth Grand Slam doubles quarterfinal as a staff.
That is their greatest outcome at a serious event since Roland Garros final yr, after they progressed to the semifinals.
The unseeded duo of France’s Kristina Mladenovic and China’s Zhang Shuai now stand of their means of one other Grand Slam semifinal look.
Mladenovic, a former world No.1, and Zhang, a former world No.2, upset the event’s second seeds and reigning Australian Open champions Hsieh Su-wei and Elise Mertens within the opening spherical.
Perez will now focus all her consideration on her ladies’s doubles marketing campaign, after handing a walkover in her combined doubles quarterfinal.
The 28-year-old Australian had been scheduled to play alongside Belgian associate Sander Gille towards American wildcards Aleksandar Kovacevic and 16-year-old Tyra Caterina Grant.
World No.3 Matt Ebden’s combined doubles marketing campaign additionally got here to an finish within the quarterfinals.
The eighth seeds, Indian Rohan Bopanna and Indonesia’s Aldila Sutjiadi, scored a hard-fought 7-6(4) 2-6 [10-7] victory towards the 36-year-old Australian and his Czech associate Barbora Krejcikova.
Aussies in motion – US Open
RESULTS
Girls’s doubles, third spherical
[5] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) d [11] Marie Bouzkova (CZE)/Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP) 6-2 6-4
Combined doubles, quarterfinals
[8] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/Aldila Sutjiadi (INA) d [4] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Barbora Krejcikova (CZE) 7-6(4) 2-6 [10-7]
[WC] Aleksandar Kovacevic (USA)/Tyra Caterina Grant (USA) d Sander Gille (BEL)/Ellen Perez (AUS) walkover
COMING UP
Girls’s doubles, quarterfinals
[5] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) v Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)/Zhang Shuai (CHN)
> VIEW: US Open 2024 ladies’s doubles draw
Males’s doubles, quarterfinals
[7] Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) v [1] Marcel Granollers (ESP)/Horacio Zeballos (ARG)
> VIEW: US Open 2024 males’s doubles draw
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