Kubot/Melo Fell French Champions To Reach QF

Seventh seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo are turning around their North American summer when it matters most, taking down Roland Garros champions Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut to reach the US Open quarter-finals on Sunday. The Polish-Brazilian duo advanced 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 in two hours and 12 minutes.

Kubot/Melo had lost in the opening round in three of their four North American hard-court events leading in. It is the first time the 2017 Wimbledon champions have won three successive matches since winning the Gerry Weber Open on grass in Halle in June.

After winning the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament title indoors in Rotterdam in February, Herbert/Mahut went on to claim their third Grand Slam doubles crown together at Roland-Garros. They won just one of their three matches since that triumph leading in to the US Open.

Kubot/Melo next meet unseeded Americans Austin Krajicek and Tennys Sandgren for a place in the semi-finals. Krajicek/Sandgren posted a 6-3, 6-4 result over Austria’s Jurgen Melzer and Croatia’s Nikola Mektic on Sunday. Prior to this year’s US Open, the Americans had only contested ATP Challenger Tour events together.

Unseeded South Americans Maximo Gonzalez and Nicolas Jarry will compete in their second Grand Slam quarter-final of the season after seeing off the Czech-Argentine pairing of Roman Jebavy and Andres Molteni 6-3, 6-4. Gonzalez/Jarry had reached the quarter-finals at Roland Garros in May, defeating No. 4 seed Bruno Soares and Jamie Murray en route and took down No. 3 seeds Henri Kontinen and John Peers in the first-round at Wimbledon. The Argentine-Chilean duo will next meet either No. 3 seeds Mike Bryan and Jack Sock or 16th seeds Dominic Inglot and Franko Skugor.