Australian Open: Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski both progress in men's doubles

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Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares won the Australian Open men's doubles title in 2016

Australian Open 2022

Dates: 17-30 January Venue: Melbourne Park

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Britain's Jamie Murray and Brazilian partner Bruno Soares came from a set down to reach the third round of the men's doubles at the Australian Open.

The 2016 winners defeated Briton Lloyd Glasspool and Finland's Harri Heliovaara 6-7 (4-7) 7-6 (7-2) 6-1.

Neal Skupski and Dutch partner Wesley Koolhof also progressed, beating Daniel Altmaier and Thiago Monteiro 6-1 6-4.

However, fellow Briton Joe Salisbury and American Desirae Krawczyk were knocked out of the mixed doubles.

Salisbury and Krawczyk, the top seeds in Melbourne, took the first set against El Salvador's Marcelo Arevalo and Mexican Giuliana Olmos but lost 6-7 (7-9) 6-4 10-5 after a match tie-break.

Jonny O'Mara and Belarusian partner Andrei Vasilevski are also out, losing 6-3 6-3 to third seeds Marcel Granollers of Spain and Argentine Horacio Zeballos.

Eighth seeds Murray and Soares trailed 2-0 in their must-win second-set tie-break but recovered impressively, winning seven consecutive points to set up a deciding set in which they dominated.

Meanwhile, 10th seeds Skupski and Koolhof eased through a 29-minute opening set against German Altmaier and Brazilian Monteiro, before taking their second match point to reach the last 16.

Australians entertain home crowd and upset top seeds

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The doubles partnership of Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios has been dubbed the 'Special Ks'

Nick Kyrgios and fellow Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis enjoyed an upset in front of a rowdy Melbourne crowd as they knocked out Croatian top seeds Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic.

The home favourites won 7-6 (8-6) 6-3 against the Olympic champions on the Kia Arena, with Pavic showing his frustration by arguing with the umpire.

He also appeared to be annoyed with the crowd, who showed vocal support for the Australian pair, while one man called the arena's attention to drink a beer from his shoe.

"That's how they are here. We're used to that, but it wouldn't hurt them to show some respect," said Mektic about the raucous fans.

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