After winning doubles title at Australian Open, the pair are back together at River Oaks
Rinky Hijikata, left, of Australia and compatriot Jason Kubler celebrate after defeating Hugo Nys of Monaco and Jan Zielinski of Poland in the men's doubles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023.
But the next 37 years? Things didn’t go well at all for the men from Down Under. Even Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde managed to cop only two titles, in 1992 and 1997, and the “Woodies” were the only all-Australian tandem to triumph, although Woodbridge claimed a third championship playing with Sweden’s Jonas Bjorkman in 2001. The Aussie-South African team of Laurie Warder and Danie Visser prevailed in 1993, too.
“We kind of scraped our way through, finding out what worked and what didn’t,” Hijikata said. “We figured it out match by match. In the third one, we’re down match point . But, by the quarters, everything kind of clicked. We were serving big, returning big. We were pretty in sync.” Purcell has returned but without Ebden, who recently won at Indian Wells with his new partner, Rohan Bopanna. Purcell’s mate this week is Jordan Thompson. Unseeded, they’re the only other Aussies in the mix.
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