Huey, partner ready for Australian Open doubles

The tandem of Filipino Treat Huey and Belarusian Max Mirnyi will be one of the seeded
pairs when the prestigious Australian Open doubles competitions begin on January
16 at the Melbourne Park in Australia.
Huey and Mirnyi are ranked 10th in the acceptance list released by the Association
of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour on Tuesday.
Mirnyi is at No. 21 in the doubles world ranking while Huey holds the 22nd spot.
Leading the pack are top seeds and 2015 finalists Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas
Mahut of France, defending champions Jamie Murray of Great Britain and Bruno Soares
of Brazil, and six-time winners Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan of the US.
The other seeded pairs are Henri Kontinen of Finland and John Peers of Australia,
Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez of Spain, Raven Klaasen of South Africa and Rajeev
Ram of the US, Ivan Dodig of Croatia and Marcel Grabollers of Spain, Daniel Nestor
of Canada and Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France and Lukasz Kubot of Poland and Marcelo
Melo of Brazil.
Last year, Huey and Mirnyi had a colorful run in Grand Slam events.
They reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open (losing to Daniel Nestor of
Canada and Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic, 4-6, 4-6) and semifinals in the
Wimbledon Championship (bowing to Herbert and Mahut in five sets, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6
(3), 4-6, 4-6).
Huey and Mirnyi made it to the third round of the French Open and first round of
the US Open.
Huey and Slovenian partner Andeja Klepac were also semifinalists in the Australian
Open mixed doubles.
Huey’s dream of booking a first finals stint in a Grand Slam event was foiled when
he and Klepac succumbed to Tecau and American Coco Vandeweghe.
Before flying to Melbourne, Huey had a warmup tournament in New Zealand where he
competed in the singles qualifying stage but lost to Canadian Steven Diez, 5-7,
2-6.
Source: www.manilatimes.net