Marx Purcell and Jordan Thompson defeat the world’s top team to secure their semifinal spot in the US Open 2024 men’s doubles competition.
New York, USA, 4 September 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson have scored a major upset to progress to the US Open 2024 men’s doubles semifinals.
The seventh-seeded Australians scored a 7-6(4) 6-4 victory against the co-ranked world No.1s, Spain’s Marcel Granollers and Argentina’s Horacio Zeballos, in men’s doubles quarterfinal action today at Flushing Meadows.
This is their second straight-sets victory against the top-seeded pairing of Granollers and Zeballos in a Grand Slam this season, having also beaten them in the Wimbledon semifinals.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Purcell and Thompson knock out No.1 seeds Granollers and Zeballos to reach the semis 🇦🇺 pic.twitter.com/VsNm0lgDQn
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 3, 2024
This continues a career-best US Open run for world No.13 Thompson and world No.18 Purcell, thrusting them into their first doubles semifinal in New York.
With this effort, Purcell and Thompson become only the third all-Australian team to advance to a US Open men’s doubles semifinal in the past 40 years and the first to reach this stage in 28 years.
| US Open men’s doubles All-Australian semifinalists in the past 40 years |
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| Team | Year |
| Todd Woodbridge/Mark Woodforde | 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996 |
| Mark Philippoussis/Pat Rafter | 1996 |
| Max Purcell/Jordan Thompson | 2024 |
Purcell and Thompson’s semifinal opponent is yet to be decided. They’ll play either the No.11 seeds, Wesley Koolhof of Netherlands and Nikola Mektic of Croatia, or the 13th seeds, American duo Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow.
The Aussie pair are looking to advance to their second Grand Slam final as a team, having finished runners-up at Wimbledon earlier this year.
In women’s doubles action, the winning run of Ellen Perez and American partner Nicole Melichar-Martinez came to an end in the quarterfinals.
France’s Kristina Mladenovic and China’s Zhang Shuai scored a hard-fought 7-6(2) 6-4 victory against the fifth seeds.
Meanwhile, Emerson Jones and her Italian partner Vittoria Paganetti were ousted in the opening round of the girls’ doubles competition.
The 16-year-old Jones now turns her attention to the girls’ singles competition, where she has advanced to the third round.
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