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Kateřina Siniaková with Tomáš Macháč with gold medals | Photo: Edgar Su | Source: Reuters
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Tennis players Tomáš Macháč and Kateřina Siniaková became Olympic champions in mixed doubles. The premier gold in the discipline and for the Czech expedition in Paris was won by Zhang Ch’chen and Wang Sin-yu 6:2, 5:7, 10:8 after the final win over the Chinese pair. They won the dramatic duel in one hour and eighteen minutes.
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20:30 2. 8. 2024 (Updated: 23:34 2/8/2024)
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Twenty-three-year-old Macháč won the first Olympic medal in his career. On Saturday, he will fight for bronze in the men’s doubles alongside Adam Pavlásk. Their opponents will be seeded threes Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul from the USA, who lost today in the semi-finals to Australians Matthew Ebden and John Peers 5:7, 2:6.
Five years older, Siniaková, who finished the duel with a sore right hand, won the gold under five rings for the second time. Three years ago, she triumphed in the women’s doubles alongside Barbora Krejčíková. She lost to her in the quarterfinals in Paris this year.
GOLD!!!! Kateřina Siniaková and Tomáš Macháč are Olympic winners!!!
Katka is now a two-time gold medalist and follows up on the first place in the women’s doubles from Tokyo. Tomáš Macháč can add his second medal tomorrow in doubles with Adama Pavlásk.
Amazing success… pic.twitter.com/Haj3jpDaz0
— Czech Olympic Team (@olympijskytym) August 2, 2024
For Czech tennis, this is the first Olympic gold in mixed doubles. The only precious metal so far has been won by Radek Štěpánek and Lucie Hradecká, who won bronze eight years ago in Rio de Janeiro.
Macháč and Siniaková, who did not lose a set before the final in Paris, started the fight for the gold with confidence. In the first set, they did not lose serve even once, from 1:2 they won the remaining five games in a row and took the lead.
Improved performance of the Chinese
But in the second set, Zhang Chichen and Wang Sinyu improved. They didn’t let the Czech couple get a single break point and they themselves converted the only one in the twelfth game, which was also a set point at 6:5. He decided a super tie-break.
In it, Macháč and Siniaková erased the 0:3 deficit, but the Czech tennis player started massaging her right hand. The opponents then took the lead 8:6 and were two balls away from victory. Siniaková lowered the serve, but Zhang Ch’chen had the advantage of two serves at that moment. The 27-year-old Chinese, who is Macháč’s doubles partner on the ATP circuit, but failed on both serves, the Czechs gained a 9:8 lead and used the subsequent match point.
Kateřina Siniaková and Tomáš Macháč on the highest step with gold medals around their neck | Photo: Edgar Su | Source: Reuters
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