Thompson and Purcell save match factors in doubles battle at US Open 2024 | 31 August, 2024 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell have fought again from the brink of defeat to maintain their hopes alive within the US Open 2024 males’s doubles competitors.

The seventh seeds saved two match factors earlier than triumphing 4-6 7-6(3) 6-3 towards fellow Australian John-Patrick Smith and his German associate Andreas Mies in second-round motion as we speak at Flushing Meadows.

World No.56 Mies and world No.64 Smith nearly brought on a significant upset, incomes their two match factors whereas main 6-4 5-4.

Nevertheless, Thompson and Purcell proved why they’ve been one of many world’s finest groups this season, preventing again to safe a three-set victory.

That is world No.13 Thompson and world No.18 Purcell’s thirty third win from their 39 matches collectively this 12 months.

By reaching the third spherical, the 30-year-old Thompson equals his career-best doubles outcome on the US Open. He additionally reached this stage on debut in 2017.

For 26-year-old Purcell to equal his career-best outcome on the event, the Wimbledon 2024 finalists have to beat the Portuguese mixture of Nuno Borges and Francisco Cabral of their subsequent match.

Matt Ebden and his Indian associate Rohan Bopanna additionally booked their spot within the third spherical of the lads’s doubles competitors, after comfortably accounting for Spain’s Roberto Carballes Baena and Argentina’s Federico Coria 6-2 6-4.

It’s a welcome return to kind for world No.3 Ebden and world No.4 Bopanna, who final gained back-to-back matches collectively at Roland Garros.

The reigning Australian Open champions are confirmed performers on the game’s greatest stage although, having gained 12 of their 14 Grand Slam matches this season. They’ll look to proceed this development after they met the sixteenth seeds, Argentine duo Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni, within the subsequent spherical.

Within the combined doubles competitors, Ellen Perez and Belgian associate Sander Gille triumphed 5-7 7-6(8) [10-3] towards France’s Sadio Doumbia and Ukrainian Lyudmyla Kichenok within the opening spherical.

World No.10 Perez and world No.35 Gille saved two match factors within the second-set tiebreak, then dominated the following match tiebreak to wrap up a powerful victory.

Aussies in motion – US Open

RESULTS
Males’s doubles, second spherical
[2] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) d Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP)/Federico Coria (ARG) 6-2 6-4
[7] Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) d John-Patrick Smith (AUS)/Andreas Mies (GER) 4-6 7-6(3) 6-3

Combined doubles, first spherical
Sander Gille (BEL)/Ellen Perez (AUS) d Sadio Doumbia (FRA)/Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR) 5-7 7-6(8) [10-3]
[WC] Kaylan Bigun (USA)/Iva Jovic (USA) d Max Purcell (AUS)/Dayana Yastremska (UKR) 6-4 6-4

COMING UP
Males’s doubles, second spherical
Rinky Hijikata (AUS)/Lloyd Glasspool (GBR) v [3] Rajeev Ram (USA)/Joe Salisbury (GBR)

Males’s doubles, third spherical
[2] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) v [16] Maximo Gonzalez (ARG)/Andres Molteni (ARG)
[7] Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) v Nuno Borges (POR)/Francisco Cabral (POR)