{"id":1546057,"date":"2022-07-09T17:34:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T21:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1546057"},"modified":"2022-07-09T17:35:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T21:35:15","slug":"tennis-australias-ebden-and-purcell-channel-woodies-to-win-wimbledon-doubles-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennis-australias-ebden-and-purcell-channel-woodies-to-win-wimbledon-doubles-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis-Australia\u2019s Ebden and Purcell channel Woodies to win Wimbledon doubles crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftennis-australias-ebden-and-purcell-channel-woodies-to-win-wimbledon-doubles-crown%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1546057&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>LONDON (Reuters) -Australia\u2019s Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell prevented the Croatian duo of Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic from winning back-to-back men\u2019s doubles titles at Wimbledon with a 7-6(5) 6-7(3) 4-6 6-4 7-6(10-2) victory in the final on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It was a long and arduous journey to the final for the Australians, with five of their six matches going to five sets while they saved a total of eight match points along the way.<\/p>\n<p>It was also a first Grand Slam crown for the duo, who became the first all-Australian team in 22 years to win the men\u2019s doubles at the All England Club since the famous Woodies \u2014 Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde \u2014 won their last title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark Woodforde was actually out on the warm-up court with us this morning,\u201d said Ebden, who lost the mixed doubles final on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTodd Woodbridge has been chatting with us as well, so we definitely channelled the Woodies. They are great mentors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pavic, a left-hander playing with a fractured bone on his right wrist, had it taped up and was trying his best to play with one hand, subconsciously tucking his right arm in during rallies and not opting for two-handed returns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was tough to play, it was close. Obviously we were close, so it\u2019s a bit frustrating. You\u2019re not a 100%,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey deserved to win. We gave our best, we gave them a fight. I think we can be very proud of ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SETTLED BY TIEBREAKS<\/p>\n<p>With almost nothing to separate the pairs in two tight sets settled by tiebreaks, the Croatians gained the upper hand with the first break of serve in the match in the opening game of the third when Purcell double-faulted and they took the set.<\/p>\n<p>The Australians, however, pounced at 5-4 in the fourth, switching tactics and going hard on their returns to fire a series of winners, clinching the set and forcing a decider as they encouraged the crowd to raise the volume at Centre Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething kind of changed towards the end of the third set. We thought, \u2018Let\u2019s just play on Centre Court and enjoy ourselves\u2019,\u201d Purcell said.<\/p>\n<p>But the Croatians returned the favour, breaking to lead 3-2 in the final set, with Pavic dancing around the court with his arms raised even as Mektic looked on with his mouth hanging open in disbelief after his team mate\u2019s pinpoint returns.<\/p>\n<p>With tensions running high, players from both sides got their wires crossed on crucial points, but it was the Australians who kept their nerve and broke back to make it 4-4 before the match went into a tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>The final marked the first time in Wimbledon doubles history that the match, and the championship, was decided by a 10-point tiebreak and it was the Australians who stepped up to claim victory after an epic four hours and 11 minutes battle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey almost beat us with an injury, we were very lucky to win,\u201d Ebden said of the second-seeded Croatian pair who also won Olympic gold last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat just shows how big a team they are. With a big problem like that, they almost won Wimbledon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Ken Ferris)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tennis-australias-ebden-and-purcell\/wimbledon-49\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI680BE-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI680BE-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tennis-australias-ebden-and-purcell-2\/wimbledon-50\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI680BK-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI680BK-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tennis-australias-ebden-and-purcell\/wimbledon-51\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI680BG-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI680BG-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tennis-australias-ebden-and-purcell-2\/wimbledon-52\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI680BH-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI680BH-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) -Australia\u2019s Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell prevented the Croatian duo of Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic from winning back-to-back men\u2019s doubles titles at Wimbledon with a 7-6(5) 6-7(3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1546057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}