Tokyo Tennis Tour: Tennis Court Olympics End as Czech and Russian Teams Win Women’s and Mixed Gold

Author: Thomas Cluck

The Olympics may have been halfway through, but the final day of the tennis competition ended at the Ariake Coliseum in Japan with the Tokyo 2020/2021 Olympics tournament ending with gold medal matches. Both the women’s doubles and mixed doubles saw medals handed out to women’s doubles gold medalist Belinda Bencic from Switzerland who wanted another gold and women’s sweep.

The battle between the Czech team, the 2021 French Open doubles and doubles champion Barbora Krejickova and her partner Katerina Siniakova, the much-proclaimed junior player, and the Swiss duo Bencic, the second best junior, and veteran Viktorija Golubic, who are leading a strong match Center Court.

In the end, it wasn’t for Bencic, possibly running out of fuel as he leaves with gold and silver- not too shabby throwing- alongside Golubic, dropping Krejickova and Siniakova 7-5, 6-1 in two straight sets.

It was a gold medal match for the entire Russian mixed pair with recently returned mother Elena Vesnina and Aslan Karatsev, who is possibly this year’s breakout player.

Tennis ended in these races dramatically and fightingly, arguably, and dropped to the last possible points in the ten-point match superplay in the third and final set in the Russian language won by Pavlyushchenko and Rublev. his teammates 6-3, 6-7, 13-11 beat gold, while Vesnina and Karatsev won silver.

The bronze medal went to Australian Ashleigh Barty, single-world number one and recently beaten Wimbledon champion, and John Peers, who received a bronze medal match yesterday from Novak Djokovic’s Serbian team, who was also Wimbledon champion this year. partner Nina Stojanovic, a young rising Serb who made an impression this season.