The Ecuadorian and the Czech were looking for a ticket to the mixed doubles title dispute. This one was at the hands of locals Jason Kubler and Jaimee Fourlis.
The Ecuadorian Gonzalo Escobar and the Czech Lucie Hradecka said goodbye in the semifinals of the Australian Open mixed doubles tournament, after falling 2-6, 7-6 (2) and 10-6 (super tie break) against locals Jason Kubler and Jaimee Fourlis, who play as guests (wild card).
Escobar and Hradecka took the lead in the first set at 6-2. The second was for the oceanic, who had the support of a small audience, in the tie break (7-6(2)).
The super tie break (playoff established in the 2019 edition) ended 10-6 and with the ticket to the definition for Kubler and Fourlis.
The match was played at the Rod Laver Arena (Melbourne) and lasted approximately 1 hour 30 minutes.
It was the first time that Escobar and Hradecka had paired up in a contest.
In Australia, the tricolor (33 years old) and the Czech (36) first left the 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). Later they went for the Pakistani Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and the Japanese Makoto Ninomiya (7-5 and 7-5).
with escobar It was the fifth time that an Ecuadorian played in the mixed doubles semifinals of a Grand Slam, after Pancho Segura (US Open, 1943 and 1947), Pancho Guzmán (Roland Garros, 1966), Andrés Gómez (Roland Garros, 1981) and Nicolás Lapentti (Wimbledon, 2000).
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