The 2nd round of the Australian Open men's doubles wrapped up today and as we know all the pairings of the 3rd round there will be several high profile names missing. The number 5 seed Mektic and Koolhof were eliminated in today's match against hometown hopefull Duckworth and Polmans. The Australian duo managed the upset in front of their own home crowd carried by their cheering
Another high profile duo Kubot / Melo the number 2 seeds failed to advance past the 2nd round. They were defeated by Gonzalez / Skupski in straight sets 7-5 7-6(4) in what is probably the biggest upset so far in the double's section of the tournament.
Check out the full results below:
Melbourne | sets | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
25.01.20 2nd round | Alexander Bublik/Mikhail Kukushkin | 2 | 6 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Ji Sung Nam/Min-Kyu Song | 1 | 73 | 4 | 5 | |||||
25.01.20 2nd round | James Duckworth/Marc Polmans | 2 | 7 | 6 | |||||
Wesley Koolhof/Nikola Mektic | 0 | 5 | 3 | ||||||
25.01.20 2nd round | Santiago Gonzalez/Ken Skupski | 2 | 7 | 7 | |||||
Lukasz Kubot/Marcelo Melo | 0 | 5 | 64 | ||||||
25.01.20 2nd round | Simone Bolelli/Benoit Paire | 2 | 7 | 4 | 6 | ||||
Sander Gille/Joran Vliegen | 1 | 66 | 6 | 3 | |||||
25.01.20 2nd round | Steve Johnson/Sam Querrey | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | ||||
Jamie Murray/Neal Skupski | 1 | 6 | 65 | 612 | |||||
25.01.20 2nd round | Henri Kontinen/Jan-Lennard Struff | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | ||||
Maximo Gonzalez/Fabrice Martin | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | |||||
25.01.20 2nd round | Marcel Granollers/Horacio Zeballos | 2 | 6 | 4 | 7 | ||||
Pablo Cuevas/Guido Pella | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | |||||
25.01.20 2nd round | Rajeev Ram/Joe Salisbury | 2 | 6 | 6 | |||||
Tennys Sandgren/Jack Withrow |
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