As if upending the No. 2 women’s doubles team in the first round of the 2023 US Open wasn’t enough, Danielle Collins exacted sweet revenge alongside Ukrainian partner Nadiia Kichenok. Collins and Kichenok dominated the encounter on Day 4, winning 6-4, 6-3 over Aussie Storm Hunter and Belgian Elise Mertens—who had saved three match points to conquer Collins in the second round of singles play the previous day.
In fact, Collins smashed a final forehand winner to clinch the victory over the 2023 Wimbledon finalists. Overall, it was a story of opportunities taken and lost—with Collins-Kichenok converting all four break points, while Hunter-Mertens only secured two of their nine break chances.
Conversely, the No. 2 seeded men’s team of Croat Ivan Dodig and American Austin Krajicek dodged an upset bid. After being edged in the first set, the 2023 Roland Garros champions battled back to overcome Spaniards Roberto Carballes Baena and Bernabe Zapata Miralles, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. In fact, 38-year-old Dodig is chasing his fourth major men’s doubles title, having also raised the championship trophy at Roland Garros in 2015 and the Australian Open in 2021—all with different partners.
The duo of John Isner and Jack Sock—both who have said they will retire after the US Open—did not get the Cinderella run they and the spirited fans on Court 12 desired. Instead, the Americans dropped a heartbreaking decision to American Robert Galloway and Frenchman Albano Olivetti, 2-6, 6-3, 6-7.
Form held for the other seeded men’s teams, with the exception of No. 10 seeds Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz who fell in a third-set tiebreak to Gregoire Barrere and Quentin Halys.
Experience (barely) topped youthful exuberance as top-ranked Dutchman Wesley Koolhof and Brit Neal Skupski edged Americans Christopher Eubanks and Ben Shelton, 7-5, 7-6. Koolhof and Skupski, who finaled at the 2022 US Open, are aiming for their second straight Grand Slam title after having triumphed at Wimbledon.
Also advancing were No. 4 Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer, No. 5 Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni, No. 7 Santiago Gonzalez and Edouard Roger-Vasselin, No. 8 Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos, No. 9 Hugo Nys and Jan Zielinski, and No. 14 Matwe Middelkoop and Mate Pavic. Stefanos Tsitsipas, who suffered a shock exit in singles to Swiss qualifier Dominic Stricker, turned Court 10 into a family affair by partnering his kid brother, Petros Tsitsipas, to a 7-6, 6-4 victory over Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela and David Vega Hernandez.
Similarly, all of the other seeded women’s teams in play on Day 4 advanced. Straight-set victors included No. 5 Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Ellen Perez; No. 8 Hsieh Su-Wei and Wang Xinyu; No. 9 Chan Hao-Ching and Giuliana Olmos; No. 10 Lyudmyla Kichenok and Jelena Ostapenko; No. 11 Latisha Chan and Yang Zhaoxuan; No. 13 Veronika Kudermetova and Liudmila Samsonova; and No. 16 Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe.
No. 12 Vera Zvonareva and Laura Siegemund, who captured the 2020 US Open doubles title in their first tournament together, advanced to the second round by turning back Caroline Dolehide and Asia Muhammad, 7-5, 5-7, 6-4.
