{"id":32204,"date":"2024-09-08T04:27:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T01:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=32204"},"modified":"2024-09-08T04:27:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T01:27:57","slug":"us-open-australian-pair-purcell-and-thompson-claim-doubles-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/08\/us-open-australian-pair-purcell-and-thompson-claim-doubles-title\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open: Australian pair Purcell and Thompson claim doubles title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Australian duo Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson rebounded from their Wimbledon final loss and claimed the US Open men\u2019s doubles title by defeating Germany&#8217;s Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz 6-4, 7-6 in Saturday\u2019s final.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The seventh-seeded Australian pair, who failed to convert three match points during the Wimbledon doubles final in July, needed three match points to seal the win on Saturday in New York, despite a comeback from the German duo in the second set.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Purcell and Thompson became the first Australian pair to win the US Open men\u2019s doubles title since Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde, who clinched the title in 1996.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Purcell earned his second doubles title at a Grand Slam, having won Wimbledon in 2022 alongside fellow Australian Matthew Ebden, while this marks Thompson\u2019s first major title.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 Australian duo Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson rebounded from their Wimbledon final loss and claimed the US Open men\u2019s doubles title by defeating Germany&#8217;s Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz 6-4, 7-6 in Saturday\u2019s final. The seventh-seeded Australian pair, who failed to convert three match points during the Wimbledon doubles final in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32205,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32204\/revisions\/32205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}