High-50 doubles gamers Ellen Perez, Matt Ebden and Jordan Thompson garnered quarterfinal victories in Queen’s and s-Hertogenbosch, respectively, on Thursday.
Melbourne, VIC, 13 June 2025 | Jackson Mansell
Wimbledon preparation is in full swing for 3 of Australia’s top-ranked doubles gamers, who’ve recorded grasscourt semifinals berths.
Ellen Perez, alongside doubles world No.12 Zhang Shuai, superior to the final 4 of the inaugural girls’s occasion at Queen’s Membership.
In the meantime, Matt Ebden and Jordan Thompson have mixed to fly the Australian flag in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, posting a quarterfinal victory on Thursday.
Perez and Shuai defeated four-time Grand Slam doubles champion Timea Babos and Brazilian Luisa Stefani in two tiebreak units to e-book their semifinal spot.
Down 6-2 within the second-set tiebreak, the No.3 seeds saved 5 set factors en path to a 7-6(4) 7-6(7) win.
Perez and Shuai face the second seeds Anna Danilina and Diana Shnaider within the semifinals. The Australian girls’s doubles No.1 targets her first title since profitable the WTA 500 Abu Dhabi occasion with Jelena Ostapenko in February.
> MORE: Perez returns to prime 10 after Abu Dhabi crown
Ebden and Thompson prevailed 3-6 7-6(5) [10-7] towards Dutchman Sander Arends and Frenchman Gregoire Jacq.
Of their first ATP match as a duo, Ebden and Thompson added to their straight-sets victory within the opening spherical towards Colombian Nicolas Barrientos and Indian Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli.
They tackle the highest seeds Nikola Mektic and Michael Venus on Friday for a spot within the ‘s-Hertogenbosch last.
On the identical occasion, Australian singles No.2 Alexei Popyrin bowed out within the spherical of 16 towards Belgian Zizou Bergs.
Popyrin pressured a final-set tiebreak however was unable to emerge victorious, dropping 6-7(3) 6-2 7-6(3) in a three-hour nailbiter.
Within the girls’s singles draw, Kimberly Birrell’s marketing campaign got here to an finish after she misplaced her round-of-16 match to Yuan Yue on Thursday.
> READ: Birrell thrilled to “smash by means of” prime 100 objective
Her first-round overcome world No.48 Wang Xinyu was her greatest victory by rating since defeating Anastasia Potapova within the opening spherical on the Miami Masters in March.
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