Gadecki, Jones suffer second-round losses in Brisbane International<\/a><\/p>\nEmerson Jones’s Brisbane International debut has ended after the rising Australian star showed strong potential in the first set.<\/p>\n
With the Australians up 2-1 at the next changeover, Kyrgios continued to encourage Kokkinakis to play with freedom.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The crowd erupted in the fourth game when Kokkinakis ended a huge rally with a thundering backhand winner.<\/p>\n
Another backhand winner from Kokkinakis gave his team hope of snaring the break, and a double fault from Reboul handed it to the Aussies.<\/p>\n
At one point during the set, Kyrgios noticed his teammate was battling a sore neck, and gave him a quick massage.<\/p>\n
Kokkinakis produced a powerful ace to give Australia a 4-1 lead and Kyrgios did a mini dance after producing a winner to snare another break and extend the lead to 5-1.<\/p>\n
The duo wrapped up the set, but were facing defeat again after going 0-5 down in the match tie break.<\/p>\n
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Fabien Reboul and Sadio Doumbia took a 5-0 lead in the match tiebreaker before winning 10-6. (AAP: Zain Mohammed)<\/p>\n
They fought back to make it 8-6, but the French duo held firm under pressure to win the next two points and secure victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kyrgios and Kokkinakis were the toast of Melbourne when they won the Australian Open doubles in 2022.<\/p>\n
Although injuries have cruelled the duo since, they started the Brisbane International in impressive style with a shock three-sets win over grand slam champions Matt Ebden and Rajeev Ram.<\/p>\n
“A little word for Kokkinakis and Kyrgios \u2014 they’ve had a lot of injuries, so very happy to see them in the tournament again, and I hope we will have many other battles,” Reboul said after Wednesday’s match.<\/p>\n
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ABC Sport will have live coverage of the Australian Open from January 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis’s doubles campaign at the Brisbane International has come to an end after an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[178628,13829,2592,43,211972,202995,6010,44,963,211973,198652,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-397911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-brisbane-international","tag-doubles","tag-france","tag-headlines","tag-kokkinakis","tag-kyrgios","tag-loss","tag-news","tag-nick-kyrgios","tag-pat-rafter-arena","tag-thanasi-kokkinakis","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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