{"id":21005,"date":"2025-06-03T10:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T02:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=21005"},"modified":"2025-06-03T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T02:21:39","slug":"golden-memories-driving-ebden-and-peers-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2025\/06\/03\/golden-memories-driving-ebden-and-peers-in-paris","title":{"rendered":"Golden memories driving Ebden and Peers in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Ebden and John Peers are back at the scene of their Olympic triumph \u2013 and they’re not ruling out a glorious reprise after advancing to the Roland Garros quarterfinals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whatever happens in the rest of their distinguished tennis careers, Matt Ebden and John Peers swear they\u2019ll always have Paris.<\/p>\n

But back in the City of Light, the veteran Australian doubles duo are still adamant that, even if their Olympic triumph in the French capital will forever be impossible to top, they still haven\u2019t given up on adding more Grand Slams to their distinguished resumes.<\/p>\n

Their assignment continues on the Roland Garros clay courts where they still get a tingle when thinking about that glorious day on Court Philippe Chatrier last August, when they became only the second Australian Olympic tennis champions in Games annals.<\/p>\n

> MORE: Golden celebrations for Ebden and Peers in Paris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt still is the place for us. And that\u2019s the great thing, forever more it will be the place,\u201d \u00a0Ebden said as the pair reminisced about their great day in an interview with\u00a0AAP<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always good to come back to a place where you\u2019ve had success, and for Matt and I, it\u2019ll always be amazing coming back here, no matter how many years pass,\u201d Peers added.<\/p>\n

The veteran duo \u2013 Peers, 36 and Ebden, 37 \u2013 have so far negotiated three rounds on their return to Roland Garros as the 15th-seeded pair, next facing British eighth seeds Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski on Tuesday in a quarterfinal showdown.<\/p>\n

All three matches were on outside courts, and the pair still haven\u2019t ventured back to Chatrier to revisit their finest hour when they beat Americans Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram in the Olympic gold medal match. However, their trip to Court Simonne Mathieu on Tuesday edges them closer to the scene of their success.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to earn your way back up there to Chatrier. Yeah, we\u2019ve got to fight, fight, fight through,\u201d smiled Ebden.<\/p>\n

Their one-off Olympic victory proved the precursor to the pair, who are great friends and live just a few kilometres away from each other in Perth, deciding to make a go of it this season as a full-time partnership on the tour.<\/p>\n

> READ: Ebden and Peers awarded Order of Australia medals<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI had a long-term partner for the last two years (Rohan Bopanna) that was probably going to come to an end at the end of last year, so I was then going to look for a partner for this year,\u201d Ebden said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn had a bit of a partnership going late last year (with Jamie Murray), and when we spoke at the end of the year, the timing wasn\u2019t quite right.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we started the year with different people and then, funnily,\u00a0teamed up again at Davis Cup<\/a>, so we put in more practice there, won our match there and practised together at home.\u00a0And we thought maybe we should take this on to the tour and have a crack, and since Indian Wells (in March), we\u2019ve been fighting through together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their partnership is more than just a reunion, though, with their ambition to add to their trophy cabinet remaining strong.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to see how many more Masters and Slams we can win, basically until, well, who knows how long we\u2019ve got left,\u201d Ebden said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it one year? Is it seven years? Or somewhere in between? I don\u2019t know how long. Parts of me and my body feel like I can play another 10 years, other parts feel like I would be happy to retire! So honestly, I don\u2019t know, but hopefully a few more years at least. Let\u2019s see \u2013 one year at a time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not here to make up numbers, we\u2019re here to go deep and win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ebden and Peers join three other Australians in action on Day 10.<\/p>\n

Junior world No.1 Emerson Jones headlines the junior contingent taking to the court as she continues her girls\u2019 singles run in Paris. The 16-year-old banked her first victory at Roland Garros 2025 with a 6-1 1-6 6-2 win over American Capucine Jauffret.<\/p>\n

She faces Wimbledon 2024 semifinalist Vendula Valdmannova in the second round.<\/p>\n

You can watch the Roland Garros 2025 action live in Australia on the Nine Network and Stan Sport from 7pm AEST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Ebden and John Peers are back at the scene of their Olympic triumph \u2013 and they’re not ruling out a glorious reprise after advancing to the Roland Garros quarterfinals. Whatever happens in the rest of their distinguished tennis careers, Matt Ebden and John Peers swear they\u2019ll always have Paris. But back in the City […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6414,"featured_media":21006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21005","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\/21005","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=21005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}