{"id":719238,"date":"2026-06-06T15:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719238\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:33:13","slug":"2026-australian-open-day-2-mixed-pairs-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719238\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Australian Open: Day 2 mixed pairs wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Val Febbo<\/a> on June 6, 2026<\/p>\n

The first knockout round of the mixed pairs at the\u00a02026 Australian Open\u00a0saw some big named further their case for the historic inaugural title in the discipline on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n

A field of 128 became 64 with matchups contested across Broadbeach and Musgrave Hill with some tantalising matchups set in the second round.<\/p>\n

The most intriguing matchup in the second round will see the all star lineups of\u00a0Sophie Kurzman\u00a0and\u00a0Aron Sherriff\u00a0up against Moama power couple\u00a0Cass Millerick\u00a0and\u00a0Kevin Anderson.<\/p>\n

Kurzman, an Emerging Jackaroo enjoying a rich vein of form, linked up with the seven-time singles champion to defeat the dangerous pairing of Jackaroo\u00a0Olivia Cartwright\u00a0and Kurzman\u2019s feeder squad teammate in\u00a0Brad Pavey\u00a014-7.<\/p>\n

Millerick and Anderson were able to account for the Queensland Victoria combination of\u00a0Dale Rayner\u00a0and\u00a0Chris Burrell\u00a015-14 in a genuine nailbiter.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, eleven-time Australian Open conqueror\u00a0Kelsey Cottrell\u00a0and recently crowned Queensland singles champion\u00a0Matt Lucas\u00a0would move through with a 20-5 win over\u00a0Camelia Maunsell\u00a0and Robert Huthnance of New South Wales and Queensland respectively.<\/p>\n

The Club Helensvale duo will meet New Zealand star and 2023 fours winner\u00a0Kaitlyn Inch\u00a0and Queensland\u2019s\u00a0Kristian Crocker\u00a0in the round of 64.<\/p>\n

The all-Jackaroo pairing of\u00a0Corey Wedlock\u00a0and\u00a0Jamie-Lee Worsnop\u00a0also enjoyed a fruitful evening with an 18-3 win over\u00a0Melissa Roberts\u00a0and\u00a0Peter Campbell\u00a0to set up a meeting with South Australian stalwarts of\u00a0Anthony\u00a0and\u00a0Unyamunee Moffatt.<\/p>\n

Jackaroo couple\u00a0Jessie Cottell\u00a0and\u00a0Carl Healey\u00a0produced a 19-13 win over the Moama duo of\u00a0Emma Simmons\u00a0and\u00a0Paul Girdler, setting up a second round meeting with the Western Australian husband wife duo of\u00a0Blake Butler\u00a0and 2024 singles winner in\u00a0Laura\u00a0Butler.<\/p>\n

Other married couples to progress are the Emerging Jackaroo and Canadian pairing of\u00a0Dale McWhinney-Shillington\u00a0and\u00a0Emma Boyd, as well as Tasmanian stars in\u00a0Jess\u00a0and\u00a0Rob McMullen.<\/p>\n

2024 pairs champion and Jackaroo\u00a0Jack McShane\u00a0and his teammate in up and coming star\u00a0Chanel\u00a0Chakouch\u00a0enjoyed a win, as did 2023 World Bowls Championships singles winner\u00a0Tayla Bruce\u00a0and Australian representative\u00a0Nathan Black.<\/p>\n

Emerging Jackaroos\u00a0Sheridon Bodnar\u00a0and\u00a0Jacob Nelson\u00a0remain, as do former Australian Champion of Champions winner\u00a0Laini McGorman\u00a0and her teammate in\u00a0Andrew Peters.<\/p>\n

Other winners the mother-son combination of\u00a0Sonya\u00a0and\u00a0Cooper Sutton, Swiss World Bowls Championships representative\u00a0Marianne Kuenzle\u00a0and her teammate in Queensland\u2019s\u00a0Allan Newman, the brother-sister duo of\u00a0Jorja\u00a0and\u00a0Isaac Maughan, father-daughter teammates in\u00a0Akasha\u00a0and\u00a0Danny Fortune\u00a0as well as\u00a0Jenny Lim\u00a0and 2023 World Bowls Championships gold medal winning director in\u00a0Cody Fehlberg.<\/p>\n

View the knockout results\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

View the mixed pairs draw\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

The 2026 Australian Open runs from June 5-19, 2026, on Australia\u2019s Gold Coast. Live streaming will run from 9am AEST each day\u00a0on Bowls Australia\u2019s\u00a0YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Val Febbo on June 6, 2026 The first knockout round of the mixed pairs at the\u00a02026 Australian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[201650,64,63,6571,44],"class_list":["post-719238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-2026-australian-open","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-open","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719238","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=719238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}