Australia’s Heath Davidson makes an emphatic begin to his Australian Open 2024 doubles marketing campaign alongside Canadian companion Robert Shaw.
Melbourne, Australia, 24 January 2024 | Jackson Mansell
Heath Davidson has launched his Australian Open 2024 quad wheelchair doubles marketing campaign emphatically, combining with world No.5 Canadian Robert Shaw to assert a straight-sets victory.
The pair breezed previous Australian Finn Broadbent and Brit Gregory Slade to succeed in the semifinals.
Davidson, the world No.4 doubles participant, is one step nearer to a fifth doubles title at Melbourne Park and his first with Shaw.
The Melburnian received 4 consecutive titles together with his buddy and countryman, Dylan Alcott, between 2018 and 2021.
Davidson and Shaw teamed to play common doubles after Alcott’s retirement in 2022. Whereas they’re but to win a Grand Slam collectively, Davidson hopes he and Shaw can declare a breakthrough this weekend.
“Me and Rob (Shaw) have gotten an important relationship. I feel the bromance has modified from me and Dylan (Alcott) to me and Rob,” joked Davidson, who was a runner-up with Shaw at Roland Garros and Wimbledon final 12 months.
“Hopefully we will get one (title). We had two probabilities final 12 months and couldn’t get any of them. So, we’re simply out right here preventing our manner by and hopefully we will maintain a trophy up on the finish of the week.”
Davidson and Shaw, the No.2 seeds on the Australian Open, will play the pairing of Andy Lapthorne and David Wagner tomorrow. The British and American duo has mixed to win eight Grand Slams collectively.
“We’re undoubtedly going to must up our recreation tomorrow. They’re a veteran staff which have performed collectively for a very long time, in contrast to the staff we had as we speak,” stated Davidson of their semifinal opponents.
“Me and Rob are going to must step it up and do what we do finest – talk and push and hopefully we will get the job carried out.”
Within the males’s wheelchair doubles, Australian duo Anderson Parker and Ben Weekes exited to No.1 seeds Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid in straight units.
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Aussies in motion – Australian Open
TODAY’S RESULTS
Quad wheelchair singles, quarterfinals
Donald Ramphadi (RSA) d Heath Davidson (AUS) 1-6 6-2 6-1
Quad wheelchair doubles, quarterfinals
[2] Heath Davidson (AUS)/Robert Shaw (CAN) d Finn Broadbent (AUS)/Gregory Slade (GBR) 6-0 6-0
Males’s wheelchair doubles, quarterfinals
[1] Alfie Hewett (GBR)/Gordon Reid (GBR) d Anderson Parker (AUS)/Ben Weekes (AUS) 6-1 6-0
COMING UP
Quad wheelchair doubles, semifinals
[2] Heath Davidson (AUS)/Robert Shaw (CAN) v Andy Lapthorne (GBR)/David Wagner (USA)
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