Ten Australians to contest doubles at US Open 2024 | 26 August, 2024 | All News | News and Features | News and Events

Wimbledon finalists Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell are among 10 Australians set to contest the doubles competitions at US Open 2024.

New York, USA, 26 August 2024 | Leigh Rogers

The men’s and women’s doubles draws are set for US Open 2024.

World No.3 Matt Ebden and Indian partner Rohan Bopanna are the No.2 seeds in the men’s doubles draw. The reigning Australian Open champions, who were finalists in New York last year, begin their 2024 campaign against Dutch duo Sander Arends and Robin Haase.

Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson are the seventh seeds. The Wimbledon runners-up, who have won 31 of their 37 matches together this season and currently sit at career-high rankings, have been pitted against American Marcos Giron and Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp in the opening round.

John Peers and Brit Jamie Murray are teaming up at a Grand Slam for the first time in nine years. The experienced duo, who were finalists at Flushing Meadows in their last appearance together in 2015, made an encouraging start to their reunion by reaching the semifinals at an ATP 250 tournament in Winston-Salem last week. The unseeded pair face Swede Andre Goransson and Dutchman Sam Verbeek in the opening round.

Thanasi Kokkinakis and his Dutch partner Tallon Griekspoor take on the No.11 seeds, Dutchman Wesley Koolhof and Croatian Nikola Mektic, while John-Patrick Smith and his German partner Andrea Mies meet Czech Tomas Machac and China’s Zhang Zhizhen, who were Australian Open semifinalists earlier this year and took home the Olympic gold and silver medals respectively in mixed doubles at Paris earlier this month.

Rinky Hijikata rounds out the Australian contenders alongside his British partner Lloyd Glasspool.

> VIEW: Full US Open 2024 men’s doubles draw

World No.10 Ellen Perez leads the Australian charge in the women’s doubles competition.

The 28-year-old and American partner Nicole Melichar-Martinez are the fifth seeds and making their third consecutive US Open appearance as a team.

Looking to improve on a semifinal appearance in 2022, they begin their 2024 campaign against American wildcards McCartney Kessler and Sabrina Santamaria.

Olivia Gadecki (partnering Chinese Taipei’s Wu Fang-Hsien) and Ajla Tomljanovic (teaming with Bulgarian Viktoriya Tomova) also feature in the draw.

> VIEW: Full US Open 2024 women’s doubles draw

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