Joe Salisbury (proper) and Rajeev Ram received the 2020 Australian Open
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Britain’s Joe Salisbury and his American associate Rajeev Ram are out of the Australian Open males’s doubles after a three-set defeat within the third spherical.
Second seeds Salisbury and Ram, the 2020 champions in Melbourne, misplaced 6-7 (4-7) 7-6 (8-6) 6-2 to Monaco’s Hugo Nys and Jan Zielinski of Poland.
They held match level within the second-set tie-break however couldn’t convert it.
It’s the first time because the 2021 French Open that the pair have failed to achieve the final eight of a Slam.
However Britain’s prime seed Neal Skupski, with Dutch associate Wesley Koolhof, is thru after they defeated Nikola Cacic of Serbia and Pakistan’s Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi 6-4 6-2.
The 2022 US Open finalists will face Australian wildcards Rinky Hijikata and Jason Kubler within the quarter-finals.
Skupski can be by to the quarter-finals of the combined doubles after he and American associate Desirae Krawczyk defeated Australian wildcards Alana Parnaby and Andrew Harris 6-2 6-4.
Skupski and Krawczyk, seeded third, will face Britain’s Jamie Murray and American Taylor Townsend subsequent.