Matt Ebden and John Friends are eyeing a spot within the Paris 2024 males’s doubles gold medal match.
Paris, France, 2 August 2024 | tennis.com.au
World No.3 doubles participant Matt Ebden and John Friends will play American No.3 seeds Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul within the semifinals for an opportunity to advance to the lads’s doubles gold medal match.
Ebden and Friends are looking for to win Australia’s tenth Olympic tennis medal since 1988.
“There aren’t any straightforward matches out right here,” mentioned Friends, the three-time Olympian.
“You simply need to carry your recreation face and revel in it. It’s not each day you get to put on the inexperienced and gold and to have the ability to do it’s an absolute honour.
The Australian pair met after they have been 16 years previous at a event in regional Victoria.
Now, 20 years later, they’re relishing within the alternative of transferring into the ultimate levels of the lads’s doubles competitors at Paris 2024.
“To do it alongside a mate is much more improbable. For us to have the ability to do it collectively, with our households within the crowd is one thing actually particular,” Friends mentioned.
“We’re right here to try to win gold, that’s what we’ve come right here for.”
Ebden mentioned the pair have been persevering with to construct on their performances every day.
“It’s one other good step, one other stepping stone. We made no secret of our aim, we need to win. That’s why we’re right here. It’s one other step in the best path,” Ebden mentioned.
Their highway to the semifinals has seen the pair defeat Lebanon’s Hady Habib and Benjamin Hassan, earlier than a second-round win over world No.1 doubles participant Marcel Granollers and Pablo Carreno Busta from Spain and Wednesday’s quarterfinal victory towards Germany’s Dominik Koepfer and Jan-Lennard Struff.
The Individuals defeated British duo Andy Murray and Daniel Evans 6-2 6-4 right this moment.
The winner of the semifinal will face off towards one other American pair, No.4 seeds Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram, in Saturday’s gold medal match.
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Males’s doubles semifinal
Matt Ebden (AUS)/ John Friends (AUS) v [3] Taylor Fritz (USA)/ Tommy Paul (USA)
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