MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Women’s environment range one Ash Barty will husband or wife U.S. Open up semi-finalist Jennifer Brady of the United States in doubles at the 2021 Australian Open up in a substantial-profile pairing in between major singles gamers, organisers said on Wednesday.
Australian Barty played with now-retired German Julia Georges in this year’s event in Melbourne where by they lost in the next spherical to eventual winners Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic.
Crowd favourite Barty’s singles operate in this year’s tournament finished in the semi-finals with a defeat to American Sofia Kenin, who went on to gain her maiden Grand Slam title in Melbourne.
World number four Kenin has improved her doubles companion for the 2021 edition of the Australian Open up and will enjoy with Swiss entire world number 12 Belinda Bencic.
Hsieh Su-Wei and Barbora Strycova, who lost the 2020 remaining, are the leading-rated women’s duo for the Grand Slam, which has been delayed by a few months thanks to Australia’s rigorous border regulations to curb the distribute of COVID-19 and will start on Feb. 8.
American Rajeev Ram and Joe Sailsbury of Britain will return to protect their men’s doubles title with the field headlined by the prime-ranked Colombian duo of Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah, who received the Wimbledon and U.S. Open up trophies final 12 months.
Britain’s seven-time Grand Slam doubles champion Jamie Murray has also reunited with his former husband or wife Bruno Soares just after splitting very last year and will appear to replicate their 2016 success when they received the Australian and U.S. Open titles.
Reporting by Sudipto Ganguly in Mumbai editing by Kim Coghill
