Publié le 27 janvier 2022 à 10H06Aurélien CANOT

For the first time in forty-two years, the final of the double gentlemen will oppose two Australian teams on Saturday.The title will indeed be decided between Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis and their compatriots Mathew Ebden and Max Purcell.Since 1997, and the success of the legendary Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde, the Australians have no longer registered their name in the record.

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The successors of Ivan Dodig and Filip Polasek, winners of the duplicate table of the last edition, will be Australian.It’s ores and already a certainty.Saturday, the final of the double gentlemen will indeed oppose two Australian teams.After the qualification initially of Mathew Ebden and Max Purcell at the expense of the pair made up of Ram and Salisbury (victory 6-3, 7-6 of the Aussies), Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios, also present in the last square,were rushed into the breach opened by their two compatriots by also winning in two sets (7-6, 6-4), facing the Spanish Granollers and Zeballos.For the first time since 1997 and the success of the legendaries Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde (against Lareau and O’Brien), Australia is therefore certain to reconnect with the success in Melbourne in a specialty that has long been that of the country.If Purcell, already, and Luke Saville, the latest Australian finalists dated, had already found themselves on the last step, in 2020 against Ram and Salisbury, they had remained at the quay nevertheless, after their dry defeat (6-4, 6-2) Faced with these two players against whom Purcell, now associated with Ebden, took his revenge this Thursday.And with regard to Woodbridge and Patrick Rafter, if they had raised the trophy well (in 2001 for the first and in 1999 for the second), they were not accompanied during their coronation by another Australian player (Woodbridge wasteam with Swedish Jonas Björkman, like refreshing two years earlier).

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The last one hundred percent Australian final dates back to 1980.Mark Edmondson and Kim Warwick had then won this final between local players against another Australian pair composed of Peter McNamara and Paul McNamee.Forty-two years later, the public of Melbourne Park will therefore be pleased to see four of his representatives are struggling before his eyes for the trophy, Saturday in the final.A dream final for Australian spectators, especially since the boiling Kyrgios and Kokkinakis, who have not stopped doing the show since the kick -off of the fortnight but nevertheless drunk with happiness after their victory on Thursday, should notnot embarrassment again to delight the public."This week was crazy, I have the impression that every time I go to the field, it's like it was my last day.We certainly did not expect to win as many games, so hope that we will continue to get the rabbit out of the hat, "said" Crazy Nick "after his boyfriend and validated their ticket on Thursday for a first Grand Chlem final.Melbourne Park could not hope better.

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