London, Nice Britain, 29 June 2024 | Leigh Rogers
For the primary time in 23 years, Australia boasts the world’s top-ranked males’s doubles participant heading into Wimbledon.
Matt Ebden is having fun with his seventh week atop of the ATP Tour doubles rankings. It’s a place he first scaled earlier this season, shortly after successful the Australian Open title alongside Indian associate Rohan Bopanna.
The skilled duo are the second seeds at Wimbledon and seeking to seize their second main title of the season.
The 36-year-old Ebden and Bopanna have received 18 of their previous 21 Grand Slam matches as a crew, which features a semifinal run on the All England Membership final yr. They start their 2024 marketing campaign in opposition to the French pairing of Adrian Mannarino and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard.
Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson, winners of three ATP titles and 21 of their 25 matches as a crew up to now this season, are the fifteenth seeds.
Ebden, who turns into the primary Australian man to carry the doubles No.1 rating at Wimbledon since Todd Woodbridge in 2001, and Purcell had been the final Australians to triumph on the grass-court Grand Slam. They memorably saved match factors throughout a number of matches throughout their title-winning run collectively in 2022.
Rinky Hijikata and John Friends have been handed a troublesome draw, pitted in opposition to British brothers Andy and Jamie Murray in a match that’s certain to get numerous consideration.
| Wimbledon 2024 Males’s doubles, first spherical |
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| [2] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) | v | Adrian Mannarino (FRA)/Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (FRA) |
| [15] Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) | v | [WC] Jay Clarke (GBR)/Marcus Willis (GBR) |
| Rinky Hijikata (AUS)/John Friends (AUS) | v | [WC] Andy Murray (GBR)/Jamie Murray (GBR) |
| John-Patrick Smith (AUS)/Andreas Mies (GER) | v | Victor Cornea (ROU)/Fabian Marozsan (HUN) |
| Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS)/Denis Shapovalov (CAN) | v | Nicolas Mahut (FRA)/Skander Mansouri (TUN) |
> VIEW: Wimbledon 2024 males’s doubles draw
World No.9 Ellen Perez leads the Australian cost within the ladies’s doubles competitors alongside American associate Nicole Melichar-Martinez.
The third-seeded mixture had been Wimbledon quarterfinalists in 2022. Trying to higher that end result, they start their quest in opposition to British wildcards Sarah Beth Gray and Tara Moore.
| Wimbledon 2024 Ladies’s doubles, first spherical |
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| [3] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) | v | [WC] Sarah Beth Gray (GBR)/Tara Moore (GBR) |
| Daria Saville (AUS)/Yuan Yue (CHN) | v | [9] Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR)/Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) |
> VIEW: Wimbledon 2024 ladies’s doubles draw
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