{"id":18790,"date":"2023-08-28T23:39:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T15:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=18790"},"modified":"2023-08-28T23:39:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T15:39:38","slug":"three-west-aussies-to-contest-doubles-at-us-open-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2023\/08\/28\/three-west-aussies-to-contest-doubles-at-us-open-2023","title":{"rendered":"Three West Aussies to Contest Doubles at US Open 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Australian&#8217;s Matt Ebden, Storm Hunter and John Peers will all feature\u00a0 in the US Open 2023 doubles draws.<\/p>\n<p>The draws have been revealed for the US Open 2023 men\u2019s and women\u2019s doubles competitions.<\/p>\n<p>World No.11 Matt Ebden and Indian partner Rohan Bopanna are the sixth seeds in the men\u2019s doubles draw. They face the all-Australian combination of Chris O\u2019Connell and Aleksandar Vukic in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>John Peers and Brazilian Marcelo Melo face a tough first-round assignment, pitted against No.13 seeds Lloyd Glasspool and Harri Heliovaara. World No.27 Glasspool and world No.25 Heliovaara made the quarterfinals in New York last year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table\">\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\"><strong>US Open 2023<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Men\u2019s doubles, first round<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>[6] Matt Ebden (AUS)<\/strong>\/Rohan Bopanna (IND)<\/td>\n<td>v<\/td>\n<td><strong>Chris O\u2019Connell (AUS)\/Aleksandar Vukic (AUS)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>John Peers (AUS)<\/strong>\/Marcelo Melo (BRA)<\/td>\n<td>v<\/td>\n<td>[13] Lloyd Glasspool (GBR)\/Harri Heliovaara (FIN)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Max Purcell (AUS)\/Jordan Thompson (AUS)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>v<\/td>\n<td>Lloyd Harris (RSA)\/Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS)<\/strong>\/Tallon Griekspoor (NED)<\/td>\n<td>v<\/td>\n<td>[WC] Alexander Frusina (USA)\/Adhithya Ganesan (USA)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Alexei Popyrin (AUS)<\/strong>\/Marton Fucsovics (HUN)<\/td>\n<td>v<\/td>\n<td>Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)\/Nicolas Mahut (FRA)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usopen.org\/en_US\/draws\/mens-doubles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&gt; VIEW: Full US Open 2023 men\u2019s doubles draw<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>World No.3 Storm Hunter leads the Australian charge in the women\u2019s doubles competition.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter and Belgian partner Elise Mertens, who were finalists at Wimbledon earlier this year, are the No.2 seeds. They begin their campaign against American Danielle Collins and Ukrainian Nadiia Kichenok.<\/p>\n<p>Ellen Perez and her American partner Nicole Melichar-Martinez, who were semifinalists at Flushing Meadows last year, are the third seeds. They\u2019ll face Argentina\u2019s Nadia Podoroska and Egyptian Mayar Sherif in the opening round.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table\">\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\"><strong>US Open 2023<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Women\u2019s doubles, first round<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>[2] Storm Hunter (AUS)<\/strong>\/Elise Mertens (BEL)<\/td>\n<td>v<\/td>\n<td>Danielle Collins (USA)\/Nadiia Kichenok (UKR)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>[5] Ellen Perez (AUS)<\/strong>\/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA)<\/td>\n<td>v<\/td>\n<td>Nadia Podoroska (ARG)\/Mayar Sherif (EGY)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Daria Saville (AUS)<\/strong>\/Irina Khromacheva<\/td>\n<td>v<\/td>\n<td>[WC] Fiona Crawley (USA)\/Carson Tanguilig (USA)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usopen.org\/en_US\/draws\/womens-doubles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&gt; VIEW: Full US Open 2023 women\u2019s doubles draw<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Australian&#8217;s Matt Ebden, Storm Hunter and John Peers will all feature\u00a0 in the US Open 2023 doubles draws. The draws have been revealed for the US Open 2023 men\u2019s and women\u2019s doubles competitions. World No.11 Matt Ebden and Indian partner Rohan Bopanna are the sixth seeds in the men\u2019s doubles draw. They face the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":18791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18790","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\/18790","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=18790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}