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Joe Salisbury (left) and Rajeev Ram on the 2023 Australian Open.
The 2020 Australian Open champs subsequent face Nys/Zielinski
Second seeds Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury narrowly prevented an upset in opposition to residence favourites Marc Polmans and Alexei Popyrin throughout Sunday’s second-round doubles motion on the 2023 Australian Open. The 2022 Nitto ATP Finals champions ousted the Aussie wild card duo 7-6(6), 4-6, 6-3.
Ram and Salisbury, who’re No. 1 and a couple of within the Pepperstone ATP Doubles Rankings, play their greatest tennis when the stage is the most important. In 2022, the American-British duo earned 4 crew titles, together with the US Open crown. Ram and Salisbury are aiming for his or her second Australian Open title (2020).
They’ll subsequent meet Polish crew Hugo Nys and Jan Zielinski, who rallied from a set all the way down to take out Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(7).
Two French groups have been victorious Sunday, together with Arthur Rinderknech and Benjamin Bonzi, who fended off all six break factors confronted to down Nicolas Barrientos and Ariel Behar 6-7(5), 6-3, 7-6(2). Jeremy Chardy and Fabrice Martin defeated Indian duo N.Sriram Balaji and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 6-4, 6-4.
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