Australian duo Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell suffered a heartbreaking loss within the Wimbledon 2024 males’s doubles ultimate.
London, Nice Britain, 14 July 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Tennis is a recreation of effective margins, as Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell have been cruelly reminded within the Wimbledon 2024 males’s doubles ultimate.
The Aussie pair had three championship factors to shut out a straight-sets win, just for Finland’s Harri Heliovaara and Brit Henry Patten to combat again and triumph 6-7(7) 7-6(8) 7-6(9).
Purcell and Thompson gained 10 extra factors, hit 19 extra winners and didn’t face a break level throughout the two-hour and 49-minute battle at Centre Court docket. However in the end, it was not sufficient to take house the Grand Slam title.
“Plain and easy, it simply sucks,” Thompson mentioned. “You understand, we had match factors, one level away from being a Wimbledon doubles champion.”
The unseeded Heliovaara and Patten, contesting solely their second main match collectively, put up an unimaginable combat, a lot to the delight of a partisan British crowd.
They saved a championship level at 5-6 within the second set, then an additional two within the second-set tiebreak.
Their efforts denied 26-year-old Purcell’s quest to win a second Grand Slam doubles title and 30-year-old Thompson’s try to win his first.
“It couldn’t have been a more in-depth match,” Patten mentioned, as he congratulated the Australians on their efforts in the course of the trophy presentation.
It was solely Purcell and Thompson’s fifth lack of the yr, from the 30 matches they’ve performed collectively.
“They did it the laborious method, they deserved it,” Purcell mentioned.
“I’m proud we made the ultimate. It’s the most effective run that Jordan and I’ve had at a Slam, we are able to’t be mad.”
A silver lining for Purcell and Thompson is that they’re set to rise to new career-high rankings subsequent week.
Purcell is projected to climb from world No.31 to make his top-20 debut, with Thompson slated to enhance from world No.32 to simply outdoors the highest 20.
Aussies in motion – Wimbledon
RESULT
Males’s doubles, ultimate
Harri Heliovaara (FIN)/Henry Patten (GBR) d [15] Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) 6-7(7) 7-6(8) 7-6(9)
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