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Jason Kubler and Rinky Hijikata are delighted to have advanced to the Australian Open 2023 men's doubles final.

Then tomorrow get the focus back on to the doubles and on to the final.” It’s just been so much fun, just getting to play more matches at home, getting to play in front of unbelievable crowds with Kubs, who’s so much fun to play with and obviously is an unbelievably good player, singles or doubles. “It’s just been unreal. “I’m pumped,” beamed Hijikata. “It’s super special,” Kubler said. “Luckily we get the day off tomorrow so we can sort of, you know, let these wins sink in.

Aussie duo Rinky Hijikata and Jason Kubler have continued their spectacular run in the Australian Open 2023 men's doubles competition, advancing to their ...

I’m definitely not going to be forgetting this. I’m just swinging.” Hijikata and Kubler are aiming to become just the second wildcards to win an Australian Open men’s doubles title. “Obviously we want to win, but regardless how it goes, this has been special. [DRAW: Australian Open 2023 men's doubles](https://ausopen.com/draws#!mens-doubles) [MATOS AND STEFANI: Brazilians on the brink of history](https://ausopen.com/articles/news/matos-and-stefani-brazilians-on-brink-history) [Rinky Hijikata](https://ausopen.com/players/australia/rinky-hijikata) and [Jason Kubler](https://ausopen.com/players/australia/jason-kubler) at Australian Open 2023.

Melbourne: Australia's wild card men's doubles pair, Rinky Hijikata and Jason Kubler continued their spectacular run in the Australian Open, ...

Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios were the first to achieve this feat last summer. The Australians will face Monegasque-Polish pair Hugo Nys and Jan Zielinski for the title. I’m just swinging,” Kubler said.

Jason Kubler and Rinky Hijikata may not be the easiest names to mash together—but the Australian Open doubles finalists will draw the line at “Team Kinky”.

“We seem to have bad names for a nickname,” Kubler said. Whatever the fans take to calling them, it’s been working for Kubler and Hijikata, who have knocked out three seeds, including the tournament favorites, during their remarkable run. Team Janky? Team Kubikata? And they are also the fourth local team in four years to reach this stage, as Purcell also made the 2020 final with Luke Saville. In their first major tournament together, Kubler and Hijikata—who stunned the No.

After last year's win by Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis who would have thought that there could be a narrative more encapsulating?

“We have been close for years now. “I feel like we get along really well. I was like, yep, I want to be like him when I'm older. “He was probably what, No. “It's super special. Hijikata’s confidence on the forehand wing was showing and Kubler was volleying to perfection and it continued into the second set as they secured a break on the Granollers serve in the first game.

Professional tennis can be a crushingly insular endeavour at times, but doubles is a completely different beast, and Australia has a rich history in the ...

The pace is noticeably faster and means that the likelihood of 4am finishes is nearly non-existent. A pinched hand, like the face of a duck, indicates that they will wait and see where the return goes. It's the third major sign, an open hand, that is perhaps the most exciting of them all. That calls for the poach — perhaps the most exciting play in tennis. In the singles game, winners are generally only hit down the alleys at the sides of the court, except on serve. A fist indicates that the non-server will stay put. While volleying has become increasingly rare in the singles game, it is vital in doubles. Despite the court being filled with twice as many players, winners are responsible for most of the points in doubles tennis — rather than the mistakes of others. This year's final may not top that level, but it's started to draw the attention away from the singles finals in the eyes of locals. Depth of shots, positioning, spin and ball placement all matter, but not as much as that core element — keeping the ball alive. The Indian legends have won countless tournaments around the world with a wide variety of partners. Although Kubler and Jaimee Fourlis went down in the final, it was some justification of the years of long struggle.