Australian Ellen Perez and American partner Nicole Melichar-Martinez have advanced to the semifinals in the US Open 2022 women’s doubles competition.
New York, USA, 7 September 2022 | Leigh Rogers
Ellen Perez and American partner Nicole Melichar-Martinez have booked their spot in the US Open 2022 women’s doubles semifinals.
The No.10 seeds continued their impressive march through the draw with a hard-fought 6-7(5) 6-4 6-4 victory against Belgium’s Kirsten Flipkens and Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo in quarterfinal action at Flushing Meadows today.
World No.26 Perez and world No.17 Melichar-Martinez needed just over three hours to win an absorbing battle at Louis Armstrong Stadium. They finished the match with 63 winners to their opponent’s 28.
“We were super aggressive and played on our terms as much as we could,” Perez said. “Keeping up our first serve percentage was key. We really just played together and fought through a lot of the ups and downs.”
Their confidence proved telling in the final stages of the match, helping them claim an eighth consecutive victory and improve their team record to 16 wins from their past 18 matches.
“We’ve had a lot of matches, which brings us a lot of confidence,” Melichar-Martinez said. “But honestly, we don’t think about the past. We’re just trying to take it one point at a time, because that’s all you can do.”
Into the semis!
🇺🇸 @nicole_melichar & 🇦🇺 @EllenPerez95 are into the final four in doubles. pic.twitter.com/HawbNzsOaL
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 6, 2022
This effort propels 26-year-old Perez into her first Grand Slam semifinal. Her previous best major result was a Wimbledon quarterfinal appearance alongside Melichar-Martinez at Wimbledon earlier this season.
Perez and Melichar-Martinez’s semifinal opponent is yet to be decided. They’ll face either third-seeded Czechs Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova, or fifth-seeded duo Gabriela Dabrowksi of Canada and Giuliana Olmos of Mexico.
The left-handed Perez joins illustrious company as the 18th Australian to advance to a US Open women’s doubles semifinal in the Open era.
| US Open women’s doubles Australian semifinalists – Open era |
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| Player | Year |
| Margaret Court | 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975 |
| Judy Dalton | 1970, 1971 |
| Kerry Reid | 1970, 1971, 1977, 1978 |
| Evonne Goolagong Cawley | 1972, 1973, 1974 |
| Lesley Hunt | 1972, 1974 |
| Janet Young | 1973 |
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