Australian duo Storm Sanders and John Peers play for the US Open 2022 mixed doubles title on day 13 at Flushing Meadows.
New York, USA, 10 September 2022 | Leigh Rogers
Storm Sanders and John Peers are the first all-Australian team in 18 years to advance to a US Open mixed doubles final.
The fourth-seeded combination are determined to continue their winning run and become the first all-Australian champions at Flushing Meadows since Rennae Stubbs and Todd Woodbridge captured the 2001 title.
“We’re obviously happy to be in the final, but we want to take the title home,” said 28-year-old Sanders, who is competing in her first Grand Slam final.
If they are successful, they would become only the fifth all-Australian duo to claim a US Open mixed doubles title in the Open era.
| US Open mixed doubles All-Australian champions in Open era |
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| Year | Team |
| 1983 | Elizabeth Smylie (AUS)/John Fitzgerald (AUS) |
| 1990 | Elizabeth Smylie (AUS)/Todd Woodbridge (AUS) |
| 1992 | Nicole Bradtke (AUS)/Mark Woodforde (AUS) |
| 2001 | Rennae Stubbs (AUS)/Todd Woodbridge (AUS) |
Standing in their way of this history-making feat are Belgium’s Kirsten Flipkens and France’s Eduoard Roger-Vasselin.
The 36-year-old Flipkens is competing in her first Grand Slam final, while 38-year-old Roger-Vasselin is hoping to capture his second major – and first since winning the Roland Garros men’s doubles title in 2014.
World No.10 Peers is a four-time Grand Slam finalist in men’s doubles and won the Australian Open 2017 men’s doubles title. Yet this is a first mixed doubles final appearance for the 34-year-old, who had lost four times previously in the semifinal stage at major tournaments.
“Been knocking on the door quite a few times, got unlucky a few times,” said Peers.
“To be able to make the final here with Storm is a lot of fun. Hopefully we’ve got one more push in us.”
Melbourne teen Saalim Naser will also contest his first Grand Slam final, having advanced to the boys’ wheelchair doubles championship match.
Congratulations to Australia’s Saalim Naser and Ivar van Rijt of the Netherlands for advancing to the inaugural boys’ wheelchair doubles final at the #USOpen 👏
They’ll play for the title tomorrow #GoAussies pic.twitter.com/wVOCV6M2tq
— TennisAustralia (@TennisAustralia) September 10, 2022
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