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Matt Ebden and Max Purcell are determined to win a Grand Slam title together after making the final at the Australian Open. Ebden and Purcell fell just short of winning their maiden Grand Slam title in Melbourne as they were beaten by Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios in the final.
“I want us to play Grand Slam finals and be winning Slams, and I hope we can win many,” Ebden said, per Tennis Australia. “I want us to channel the Woodies and try and win a lot and I really believe we can.
Even tonight I feel like there wasn’t too many teams or basically nobody out there who might have beaten us tonight, except maybe those guys playing that well and that big. “It took that to beat us, so we have to look ourselves in the mirror and go, ‘Okay, too good’.
If that’s what it takes to beat us, sure. “We played the No. 4 team in the world, the No. 2 team in the world, the No. 1 team, the No. 5 team, guys who haven’t lost a match this year. We’ve beaten everybody. And credit to them, so have they.
And then tonight they beat us”.
Ebden and Purcell beaten in straight sets
Kokkinakis and Kyrgios claimed a 7-5 6-4 win over Ebden and Purcell in the final. Kokkinakis and Kyrgios claimed the first break of the match in the 11th game of the first set and then the lone break of the second set in the seventh game.
“Yeah, they played great. It’s obviously hard going in playing against five doubles teams in a row and then playing them where they’re just a lot better at the back than a lot of the other guys we played,” Purcell said.
“But I mean, if you told me I was going to make another final at the start of this week I definitely would have said, ‘sweet’, and would have been stoked for it. I’ve got no regrets. I loved playing out there. It was an amazing crowd. Hopefully I can turn up a third time and win it”.