November 23, 2024
Matthew Ebden and John Peers overcame a disappointing set and managed to avoid considerable anxiety during the Match Tie-break, ultimately winning the gold medal in the Olympics.
In a thrilling match that took place on Court Philippe-Chatrier on Saturday afternoon in Paris, the unseeded Australian duo defeated the Americans Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram 6-7(6), 7-6(1), 10-8.
Ebden and Peers played some of their best tennis during their first-ever ATP head to head match to secure the victory.
The two 36-year-olds captured Australia’s second gold medal in the history of the Olympic Tennis Event with their two-hour, four-minute victory.
Australian tennis champions Peers and Ebden are ranked No. 59 and No. 3 in the PIF ATP Doubles Rankings, respectively. They are joined in the elite group of ATP Tour winners, Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde, who won in Atlanta 1996.
In the bronze-medal match, Childhood friends Tommy Paul and Taylor Fritz win an Olympic medal together in Paris, beating Tomas Machac and Adam Pavlasek 6-3, 6-4 to win the Men’s Doubles Bronze Medal.
Throughout the 70-minute encounter, Fritz and Paul, two Top-20 singles players, showed to be extremely powerful.
The United States will depart Paris 2024 with two men’s tennis medals thanks to the third seeds, who unleashed 23 winners and converted three of their 11 earned break points.
Fritz and Paul became the sixth American duo to win a men’s doubles medal since the Olympic Tennis Event resumed in 1988, following Krajicek and Ram’s earlier silver medal.
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