Breaking News : The winners of the last three US Open men’s doubles titles are eliminated in the third rounBreaking News : The winners of the last three US Open men’s doubles titles are eliminated in the third round
NEW YORK (AP)— Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury, the three-time defending U.S. Open men’s doubles champions, were knocked out in the third round by the 13th-seeded American combination of Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow 7-6 (3), 6-3 on Monday.
Ram, from the United States, and Salisbury, from Britain, had won 20 consecutive matches at Flushing Meadows. They were seeded third this year.
They became the first men to win three consecutive U.S. Open doubles titles since Americans Tom Bundy and Maurice McLoughlin in 1912-14.
In the quarterfinals, Lammons and Withrow will face Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektic, the 11th seed.
Koolhof and Mektic were the last team to defeat Ram and Salisbury in New York, doing so in the semifinals of 2020.
