MIXED DOUBLES MATCH NOTES Gold Medal Match

TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC TENNIS EVENT MIXED DOUBLES MATCH NOTES Gold Medal Match Sunday 1 August 2021 No. 4 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova/Andrey Rublev (ROC) v Elena Vesnina/Aslan Karatsev (ROC) Bronze Medal Match Saturday 31 July 2021 Nina Stojanovic/Novak Djokovic (SRB) v Ashleigh Barty/John Peers (AUS) On court this weekend… • The mixed doubles final sees the 2 teams from ROC face off, with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova/Andrey Rublev and Elena Vesnina/Aslan Karatsev battling for gold. It is 2nd gold medal match at Tokyo 2020 to feature 2 teams from the same nation – after the all-Croatian men’s doubles final on Friday – and the 2nd time that a gold medal match at the Olympic Tennis Event has been contested exclusively by players from ROC, after the women’s singles gold medal match at Beijing 2008 when Elena Dementieva defeated Dinara Safina. The match-up sees ROC add another 2 medals to their tally at Tokyo 2020, with Karen Khachanov guaranteed to win at least a silver medal in men’s singles and Vesnina bidding to win women’s singles bronze alongside Veronika Kudermetova on Saturday. • In the bronze medal match, world No. 1s Novak Djokovic and Ashleigh Barty square off alongside partners Nina Stojanovic and John Peers, in the first meeting of the singles world No. 1s in a mixed doubles match at any level since Lleyton Hewitt and Serena Williams were on opposite sides of the net in the final at the 2003 Hopman Cup. Djokovic has 2 chances to win bronze medals here, with this match taking place after he plays Pablo Carreno Busta in the men’s singles bronze medal match, while Stojanovic is bidding to become the first Serbian woman to win a medal at the Olympic Tennis Event. Meanwhile, Barty/Peers are bidding to become the first Australians to win a medal in tennis at the Olympics since Alicia Molik won women’s singles bronze at Athens 2004.