Ecuadorian lost in the third round along with Uruguayan Ariel Behar. The Czech Lucie Hradecka is her partner in another division.
The Ecuadorian Gonzalo Escobar and the Czech Lucie Hradecka will play this Monday (22:55, Ecuador time) the quarterfinals of the Australian Open mixed doubles tournament, a day after the manabita said goodbye to the men’s doubles in the third round.
Escobar and the Uruguayan Ariel Behar fell at the Show Court Arena (Melbourne) against the locals Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios (6-4, 4-6 and 6-4), thus ending the joint participation of both South American tennis players in Australia. They arrived as fifteenth seeds.
The tennis player from Ecuador and Uruguay managed to overcome the first round together by defeating the Serbian Nikola Cacic and the Bosnian Tomislav Brkic (6-4 and 7-5). In the second, the South Americans defeated the Germans Jan-Lennard Struff and Dominik Koepfer (7-6[5], 4-6 and 6-2).
in mixed, Escobar and Hradecka made it through the opening two rounds. First, they left locals John-Patrick Smith and Astra Sharma (6-3 and 6-4) on the road; and then, to the couple of the Mexican Giuliana Olmos and the Salvadoran Marcelo Arévalo (6-4 and 6-4).
At the Margaret Court Arena, the manabite and the Czech will meet for a ticket to the semifinals with the Pakistani Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and the Japanese Makoto Ninomiya.
Besides Escobar, Emilio Gómez was the other Ecuadorian tennis player in the main draw of the Australian Open. The man from Guayaquil, who passed the three qualifying phases (qualy), fell in the first round against Croatian Marin Cilic. (D)
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