Australian duo Aleksandar Vukic and Alex Bolt progress to the ATP Newport quarterfinals in straight units, whereas in Palermo, Astra Sharma reaches her first WTA-level quarterfinal since 2022.
Newport, United States, 18 July 2024 | Matt Trollope
Newport, US
Alex Bolt upset No.5 seed Brandon Nakashima in Newport to affix fellow Aussie Aleksandar Vukic within the quarterfinals.
Bolt, a qualifier, gained his fourth straight match on the lawns of Rhode Island to succeed in his first quarterfinal on the long-running ATP 250 occasion.
His 7-6(2) 6-4 win over Nakashima – the highest-ranked participant he has crushed in 2024 – means he has gained 12 of his previous 15 matches on grass, relationship again to the start of June.
He’ll play the winner of the match between No.2 seed Marcos Giron and Frenchman Benoit Paire.
Earlier within the day, Vukic accomplished a powerful show to see off American wildcard Eliot Spizzirri.
Behind 22 winners and simply eight unforced errors, Vukic gained 6-2 7-6(3) to arrange a quarterfinal assembly with fourth seed Christopher Eubanks.
Like Bolt, Vukic has been spectacular on grass since Roland Garros, reaching the semifinals in Eastbourne plus quarterfinals in ‘s-Hertogenbosch and Newport.
He additionally reached the second spherical at Wimbledon, and has gained 10 of his 16 grass-court matches this yr.
Aussies in motion – Newport
RESULTS
Males’s singles, second spherical
[6] Aleksandar Vukic (AUS) d [WC] Eliot Spizzirri (USA) 6-2 7-6(3)
[Q] Alex Bolt (AUS) d [5] Brandon Nakashima (USA) 7-6(2) 6-4
Males’s doubles, first spherical
[WC] Robert Money (USA)/James Tracy (USA) d [3] John-Patrick Smith (AUS)/Diego Hidalgo (ECU) 6-2 7-5
COMING UP
Males’s singles, quarterfinals
[6] Aleksandar Vukic (AUS) v [4] Christopher Eubanks (USA)
[Q] Alex Bolt (AUS) v TBD
Males’s doubles, quarterfinals
Aleksandar Vukic (AUS)/Luke Saville (AUS) v [2] Julian Money (GBR)/Robert Galloway (USA)
Palermo, Italy
Astra Sharma has gained an all-Australian battle to succeed in her first WTA-level quarterfinal since 2022.
Sharma beat Ajla Tomljanovic 6-4 3-6 6-1 to succeed in the quarterfinals in Palermo for the second time, after advancing to the identical stage in 2021.
Within the pair’s first assembly, Sharma rebounded from an instantaneous break down within the remaining set, reeling off six consecutive video games to finish victory.
She’s going to subsequent face Karolina Muchova for a spot in her first WTA semifinal since Charleston in 2021.
Aussies in motion – Palermo
RESULTS
Girls’s singles, second spherical
Astra Sharma (AUS) d Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) 6-4 3-6 6-1
Girls’s doubles, first spherical
Yvonne Cavalle-Reimers (ESP)/Aurora Zantedeschi (ITA) d Lucia Bronzetti (ITA)/Olivia Gadecki (AUS) by way of walkover
COMING UP
Girls’s singles, quarterfinals
Astra Sharma (AUS) v [2] Karolina Muchova (CZE)
Budapest, Hungary
Ellen Perez has gained her second match in as many days, teaming with Timea Babos to succeed in the semifinals in Budapest.
Enjoying their first event collectively as a crew, Perez and Babos once more obtained by in a match tiebreak, overcoming Chinese language duo Tang Qianhui and Wang Xiyu.
It’s encouraging type on clay forward of the Paris 2024 Olympics, the place Perez will characterize Australia in girls’s doubles, alongside Daria Saville.
Aussies in motion – Budapest
RESULTS
Girls’s doubles, quarterfinals
[1] Timea Babos (HUN)/Ellen Perez (AUS) d Tang Qianhui (CHN)/Wang Xiyu (CHN) 7-6(6) 2-6 [10-7]
COMING UP
Girls’s doubles, semifinals
[1] Timea Babos (HUN)/Ellen Perez (AUS) v TBD
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