Matt Ebden is into his first men’s doubles semifinal after the West Australian and Max Purcell came from a set down to defeat 10th seeds Wesley Koolhof and Neal Skupski.

Ebden and Purcell claimed the match 3-6 6-4 7-6 (6), ending their rivals’ 11-match winning streak at Kia Arena.

The Australian duo will now take on second seed American Rajeev Ram and the United Kingdom’s Joe Salisbury for a place in the final, which could be an all Australian affair should Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis also win their next clash.

Ebden and Purcell were in early trouble when the Netherlands’ Koolhof and United Kingdom’s Skupski broke in the eighth game to claim the first set in 32 minutes.

The Australians rallied to break serve in the second set to take the match into a third set.

Ebden and Purcell looked on their way to claiming the deciding set when they broke again and went 4-1 up.

But the more experienced pair of Koolhof and Skupski began targeting Purcell at the net, which helped them break back and get back into the match.

It sent the third set into a thrilling tie-breaker, with a double-fault from Koolhof opening up an opportunity for the Australians.

Even as their opponents fought back, Ebden kept his head to win a vital point on return, before Purcell delivered their 16th ace of the match to win a gruelling third set in 67 minutes.

Ebden said the crowd was the key to their victory over the heavily fancied opponents.

“Some people say that and it’s not true, but today it was pretty true,” Ebden said.

“They started well. We didn’t play too bad but they played good in the first set. In the second we lifted our game, we got up 5-4 and thought this is our crowd, this is our court, this is our slam and let’s get the crowd involved.

“They got real loud, real noisy and something happened there. It fired us up, we sort of changed energy, went a bit crazy and the other guys maybe felt a bit of pressure or something and we turned it.

“We really ran with it. We took that game, took that set and took that momentum in the third, too.”

Fellow West Australian Storm Sanders and American partner Carole Dolehide were bundled out by Czech top seeds Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková in straight sets 6-2 7-6 (3).