Pavle Marinkov, an 18-year-old from Sydney, is amongst three Australian juniors to attain opening-round doubles win at Roland Garros 2024.
Paris, France, 5 June 2024 | Leigh Rogers
A number of Australians have superior to the second spherical in a Roland Garros boys’ doubles draw for the primary time in eight years.
Pavle Marinkov scored a milestone first win on the clay-court Grand Slam in Paris as we speak, teaming with Brit Oliver Bonding to beat French pair Nathan Trouve and Raphael Vaksmann 6-4 6-3 within the opening spherical.
This propels the 18-year-old from Sydney right into a showdown with the match’s sixth seeds, Brit Viktor Frydrych and Mees Rottgering of the Netherlands.
Fellow Australian Hayden Jones, a 17-year-old from the Gold Coast who’s partnering Canberra-raised French consultant Charlie Camus, scored an opening-round win yesterday.
The final time a number of Australians progressed to the second spherical in a Roland Garros boys’ doubles draw was 2016, when a 17-year-old Alex de Minaur and Blake Ellis went onto attain the semifinals.
Within the women’ doubles occasion, Australian Emerson Jones teamed with Italian Vittoria Paganetti to attain a first-round win.
The fifth seeds edged out a hard-fought 6-4 1-6 [10-7] victory in opposition to Kazakhstan duo Asylzhan Arystanbekova and Sonja Zhiyenbayeva.
That is the fifth time, from six appearances, that the 15-year-old Jones has progressed to the second spherical in a Grand Slam women’ doubles draw.
Three Australians by means of to the second spherical in junior doubles equals one of the best consequence up to now 10 years.
Aussies in motion – Roland Garros
RESULTS
Boys’ singles second spherical
Tomasz Berkieta (POL) d [6] Hayden Jones (AUS) 6-4 6-4
Boys’ doubles, first spherical
Pavle Marinkov (AUS)/Oliver Bonding (GBR) d Nathan Trouve (FRA)/Raphael Vaksmann (FRA) 6-4 6-3
Women’ doubles, first spherical
[5] Emerson Jones (AUS)/Vittoria Paganetti (ITA) d Asylzhan Arystanbekova (KAZ)/Sonja Zhiyenbayeva (KAZ) 6-4 1-6 [10-7]
COMING UP
Boys’ doubles, second spherical
[5] Hayden Jones (AUS)/Charlie Camus (FRA) v Timofei Derepasko/Amir Omarkhanov (KAZ)
Pavle Marinkov (AUS)/Oliver Bonding (GBR) v [6] Viktor Frydrych (GBR)/Mees Rottgering (NED)
> VIEW: Roland Garros 2024 boys’ doubles draw
Women’ doubles, second spherical
[5] Emerson Jones (AUS)/Vittoria Paganetti (ITA) v Eliska Tichackova (CZE)/Lucie Urbanova (CZE)
> VIEW: Roland Garros 2024 women’ doubles draw
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