{"id":18627,"date":"2023-07-13T00:56:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T16:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=18627"},"modified":"2023-07-13T01:02:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T17:02:44","slug":"west-aussies-ebden-and-hunter-advances-to-the-doubles-semi-finals-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2023\/07\/13\/west-aussies-ebden-and-hunter-advances-to-the-doubles-semi-finals-at-wimbledon","title":{"rendered":"West Aussies Ebden and Hunter advances to the Doubles Semi-Finals at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Aussies Storm Hunter and Matt Ebden have advanced to their respective doubles semi-finals at Wimbledon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Matt Ebden<\/strong> has advanced to back-to-back gentlemen\u2019s doubles semifinals at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

After enjoying a title-winning run alongside compatriot Max Purcell last year, the 35-year-old Matt Ebden from Perth has progressed to the final four for the second consecutive year with India\u2019s Rohan Bopanna.<\/p>\n

The sixth-seeded combination survived a spirited challenge from Dutch duo Tallon Griekspoor and Bart Stevens in the quarterfinals at the All England Club today, eventually closing out a 6-7(3) 7-5 6-2 victory.<\/p>\n

This extends world No.16 Ebden\u2019s winning streak at the tournament to 10 matches.<\/p>\n

Ebden joins exclusive company with this effort.<\/p>\n

He is the 17th Australian to reach back-to-back gentlemen\u2019s doubles semifinals at Wimbledon in the Open era and becomes the first player to achieve the feat in 19 years.<\/p>\n

The last to do so was Todd Woodbridge, who made three consecutive semifinals between 2002 and 2004.<\/p>\n

Pat Cash and Paul McNamee are the only other Australians to reach a semifinal at the All England Club, then return to that stage the following year with a different partner.<\/p>\n

Top seeds Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands and Brit Neal Skupski await in the semifinals.<\/p>\n

These two teams have met four times already this season, scoring two wins apiece.<\/p>\n

Koolhof and Skupski, the co-ranked world No.2s, won their most recent meeting against Ebden and Bopanna on the grass-courts at Queen\u2019s Club last month.<\/p>\n

Australian Storm Hunter and Belgian partner Elise Mertens have moved into the Wimbledon 2023 ladies’ doubles semifinals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Storm Hunter<\/strong> and Belgian Elise Mertens are proving why they are one of the world\u2019s best teams.<\/p>\n

The third seeds have dropped a total of seven games in a hasty march into the ladies\u2019 doubles semifinals at Wimbledon 2023.<\/p>\n

Hunter and Mertens secured their place in the final four with another commanding victory, beating British wildcards Naiktha Bains and Maia Lumsden 6-2 6-1 in quarterfinal action today at the All England Club.<\/p>\n

Bains and Lumsden, ranked No.173 and No.178 respectively, had been enjoying a stunning career-best run to become the first all-British pair to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals in 40 years.<\/p>\n

But world No.7 Hunter and world No.8 Mertens simply outclassed their less experienced opponents, conceding only 11 points on serve in the 71-minute encounter.<\/p>\n

This improves 28-year-old Hunter and 27-year-old Mertens\u2019 season record to 18 wins from their 23 matches.<\/p>\n

They teamed up for the first time at the Australian Open in January, where they advanced to the quarterfinals. Hunter and Mertens\u00a0also made final-eight appearances at Indian Wells and Miami, before enjoying a title-winning run at the WTA 1000 event in Rome.<\/p>\n

This helped Hunter\u2019s ranking peak at a career-high world No.5 in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a lot of fun,\u201d Hunter said of their partnership on\u00a0The AO Show<\/em>\u00a0podcast<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0last week.<\/p>\n

Their semifinal run matches Hunter\u2019s career-best result at Wimbledon, having also made this stage in 2021.<\/p>\n

With this effort, Hunter joins exclusive company as only the 12th Australian in the Open era to make multiple ladies\u2019 doubles semifinal appearances at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n

Hunter and Mertens now play the 16th seeds, American Caroline Dolehide and China\u2019s Zhang Shuai, for a place in the final.<\/p>\n

Although it will be the first meeting between these teams, they are familiar with each other.<\/p>\n

Hunter has made two Grand Slam doubles semifinal appearances alongside world No.39 Dolehide, including at Wimbledon in 2021.<\/p>\n

Mertens and world No.36 Zhang reached last year\u2019s Wimbledon doubles final together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

West Aussies Storm Hunter and Matt Ebden have advanced to their respective doubles semi-finals at Wimbledon. Matt Ebden has advanced to back-to-back gentlemen\u2019s doubles semifinals at Wimbledon. After enjoying a title-winning run alongside compatriot Max Purcell last year, the 35-year-old Matt Ebden from Perth has progressed to the final four for the second consecutive year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":18628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}