Paris, France, 26 Could 2024 | Leigh Rogers
A robust contingent of Australians are set to contest the lads’s and girls’s doubles occasions at Roland Garros 2024.
World No.3 Matt Ebden is amongst seven Australians entered within the males’s doubles competitors.
Ebden and his Indian associate Rohan Bopanna are the No.2 seeds. The reigning Australian Open champions face Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics and Finland’s Emil Ruusuvuori within the opening spherical.
5 of the Australians within the area are Grand Slam doubles champions.
| Roland Garros 2024 Males’s doubles, first spherical |
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| [2] Matt Ebden (AUS)/Rohan Bopanna (IND) | v | Marton Fuscovics (HUN)/Emil Ruusuvuori (FIN) |
| Max Purcell (AUS)/Jordan Thompson (AUS) | v | Tallon Griekspoor (NED)/Bart Stevens (NED) |
| John-Patrick Smith (AUS)/Denys Molchanov (UKR) | v | Petros Tsitsipas (GRE)/Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) |
| Rinky Hijikata (AUS)/Guido Andreozzi (ARG) | v | Nicolas Barrientos (COL)/Francisco Cabral (POR) |
| John Friends (AUS)/Roman Safiullin | v | Yuki Bhambri (IND)/Albano Olivetti (FRA) |
| Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS)/Denis Shapovalov (CAN) | v | [14] Nathaniel Lammons (USA)/Jackson Withrow (USA) |
> VIEW: Full Roland Garros 2024 males’s doubles draw
World No.7 Ellen Perez leads the Australian cost within the ladies’s doubles competitors.
The 28-year-old from New South Wales is seeded second alongside American associate Nicole Melichar-Martinez. The duo, who had been semifinalists in Paris final 12 months, start their marketing campaign in opposition to Brazilian Ingrid Gamarra Martins and Brit Olivia Nicholls.
| Roland Garros 2024 Ladies’s doubles, first spherical |
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| [2] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) | v | Ingrid Gamarra Martins (BRA)/Olivia Nicholls (GBR) |
| Daria Saville (AUS)/Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) | v | [16] Miyu Kato (JPN)/Nadiia Kichenok (UKR) |
> VIEW: Full Roland Garros 2024 ladies’s doubles draw
Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde are the final Australians to win a males’s doubles title at Roland Garros, triumphing in 2000.
The newest Australian ladies’s doubles champion on the clay-court Grand Slam event was Alicia Molik, who was victorious alongside Italian Mara Santangelo in 2007.
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