{"id":19835,"date":"2024-08-02T13:19:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T05:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=19835"},"modified":"2024-08-02T13:21:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T05:21:01","slug":"ebden-peers-to-play-americans-fritz-and-paul-in-olympic-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2024\/08\/02\/ebden-peers-to-play-americans-fritz-and-paul-in-olympic-semifinals","title":{"rendered":"Ebden, Peers to play Americans Fritz and Paul in Olympic semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Ebden and John Peers are eyeing a spot in the Paris 2024 men’s doubles gold medal match.<\/strong><\/p>\n

World No.3 doubles player Matt Ebden and John Peers will play American No.3 seeds Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul in the semifinals for a chance to advance to the men\u2019s doubles gold medal match.<\/p>\n

Ebden and Peers are seeking to win Australia\u2019s 10th Olympic tennis medal since 1988.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no easy matches out here,\u201d said Peers, the three-time Olympian.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just have to bring your game face and enjoy it. It\u2019s not every day you get to wear the green and gold and to be able to do it is an absolute honour.<\/p>\n

The Australian pair met when they were 16 years old at a tournament in regional Victoria.<\/p>\n

Now, 20 years later, they are relishing in the opportunity of moving into the final stages of the men\u2019s doubles competition at Paris 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo do it alongside a mate is even more fantastic. For us to be able to do it together, with our families in the crowd is something really special,\u201d Peers said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re here to try and win gold, that\u2019s what we have come here for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ebden said the pair were continuing to build on their performances each day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s another good step, another stepping stone. We made no secret of our goal, we want to win. That\u2019s why we are here. It\u2019s another step in the right direction,\u201d Ebden said.<\/p>\n

Their road to the semifinals has seen the pair defeat Lebanon\u2019s Hady Habib and Benjamin Hassan, before a second-round win over world No.1 doubles player Marcel Granollers and Pablo Carreno Busta from Spain and Wednesday\u2019s quarterfinal victory against Germany\u2019s Dominik Koepfer and Jan-Lennard Struff.<\/p>\n

The Americans defeated British duo Andy Murray and Daniel Evans 6-2 6-4 today.<\/p>\n

The winner of the semifinal will face off against another American pair, No.4 seeds Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram, in Saturday\u2019s gold medal match.<\/p>\n

Paris 2024 Olympic Games \u2013 Tennis Day 7 preview<\/strong><\/p>\n

>VIEW: Olympics Day 7 order of play<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Men\u2019s doubles semifinal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Matt Ebden (AUS)\/ John Peers (AUS) v [3] Taylor Fritz (USA)\/ Tommy Paul (USA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Ebden and John Peers are eyeing a spot in the Paris 2024 men’s doubles gold medal match. World No.3 doubles player Matt Ebden and John Peers will play American No.3 seeds Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul in the semifinals for a chance to advance to the men\u2019s doubles gold medal match. Ebden and Peers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6414,"featured_media":19836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}