Two points from defeat, Machac Siniakova rally to take mixed doubles gold

pa href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/tomas-machac/m0fh/overview'Tomas Machac/a and Katerina Siniakova rallied from the brink of defeat to claim the mixed doubles gold medal for Czechia at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/scores/archive/paris/96/2024/results'Paris Olympics/a./p

pThe Czechs trailed Chinese duo Wang Xinyu and Zhang Zhizhen 6/8 in a dramatic match tie-break but after clawing back to 8-all, welcomed a double fault from Zhang that set up match point. The former off-court couple sealed gold when Machac's fierce service return drew a volleying error from Wang, who earlier in the set had made a number of clutch poach volleys for winners. /p

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pBoth playing mixed doubles at the Olympics for the first time, Machac and Siniakova became the first Czechia team to win the mixed doubles gold with their 6-2, 5-7, 10-8 victory./p

pSiniakova collected her second gold medal, having won the women's doubles gold in Tokyo with Barbora Krejcikova. /p

pimg src="/-/media/images/news/2024/08/02/17/58/felix-mixed-doubles-bronze.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/felix-auger-aliassime/ag37/overview'Felix Auger-Aliassime/a and Gabriela Dabrowski on their way to collecting mixed doubles bronze at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/scores/archive/paris/96/2024/results'Paris Olympics/a." /

ema href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/felix-auger-aliassime/ag37/overview'Felix Auger-Aliassime/a and Gabriela Dabrowski on their way to collecting mixed doubles bronze at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/scores/archive/paris/96/2024/results'Paris Olympics/a. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/em/p

pEarlier in the day, a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/felix-auger-aliassime/ag37/overview'Felix Auger-Aliassime/a and Gabriela Dabrowski won the mixed doubles bronze medal with a 6-3, 7-6(2) victory over Dutch duo a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/wesley-koolhof/kc41/overview'Wesley Koolhof/a and Demi Schuurs Friday./p

pThe Canadian pair looked headed for a comfortable win after leading 6-3, 3-0, before Koolhof and Schuurs rallied to extended the second set to a tie-break. But the Canadians steadied to become the second players from their nation to win an Olympic medal following the gold medal success of a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/sebastien-lareau/l226/overview'Sebastien Lareau/a and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/daniel-nestor/n210/overview'Daniel Nestor/a in Sydney in 2000./p

pAuger-Aliassime, who earlier in the day lost his singles semi-final to a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/carlos-alcaraz/a0e2/overview'Carlos Alcaraz/a, will have a shot at a second bronze medal when he plays the loser of tonightrsquo;s a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/novak-djokovic/d643/overview'Novak Djokovic/a and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/lorenzo-musetti/m0ej/overview'Lorenzo Musetti/a semi-final./p

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