Category: Tennis Forecast

The French duo Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert will turn their attention to winning the Olympic gold medal in Tokyo after winning the French Open doubles championship for the second time.

Mahut and Herbert won all four Grand Slam titles together. They defeated Kazakhstan’s Alexander 4-6, 7-6(1), 6-4 in the French Open final on Saturday. Bublik and Andrei Golubev.

This is their fifth Grand Slam championship as a team.

After they became the first all-France team to win two major championships on clay court since World War II, Mahut fell to the ground, holding his head in his hands.

Mahut and Herbert won their first championship in Paris in 2018.

The emotional Mahut held back his tears, saying that winning the doubles gold medal at the Olympics is likely to be the last big goal of their career.

“We are working very hard to achieve this goal,” he said.

The French pair saved three match points on Thursday, beating second seeds Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah in the semifinals.

Bublik and Golubev are fighting to win their first Tour Championship and become the first Kazakh man to win a Grand Slam in any event. The only Kazakhstan player to win a Grand Slam title is Yaroslava Shvedova, who won the women’s doubles at the 2010 Wimbledon and US Open.

The Kazakh combination served 5-4 in the second set, but Bublik was broken after hitting a double error. Mahut and Herbert then dictated the game in the tiebreaker. They saved two break points in the fourth game of the deciding game and led 4-3.

French fans played a cappella version of the French national anthem to celebrate their victory.

Nicholas Mahut and Pierre Hugues Herbert defeated Alexander Bubrick and Andrei Golubev 4-6, 7-6, 6-4 in the final to win 2021 French Open men’s doubles champion.

This is their second French Open championship and their fifth Grand Slam championship together. They saved the match point in the semifinals against Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah. Bublik and Golubev became the first male Kazakhstan player to enter the Grand Slam final.

After sitting on an equal footing, Bublik and Golubev, their goal is to become the first Kazakh to win a Grand Slam in any event. They won three consecutive games with a score of 2-2 and broke 2018 twice. The French Open champion will lead 5-2. Although the score of the French duo was close to 4-5, Bublik and Golubev kept their serve to seal the victory. They won 80% (16/20) of their first serve points.

Despite being broken at the beginning of the second quarter, the Kazakhs continued to perform well, occupying 40% (8/20) of Herbert and Mahut’s first serve points as they played in the next five games. They won four games and led 5-4. However, the pair entered the third round at the Australian Open in February (l. to Arevalo/Middlecoupe). Two Grand Slam tournaments, but failed to end in a tie when serving. Herbert and Mahut then dominated the tie-break and forced the game into a tiebreaker.

From there, the experience of the French pair showed that they saved two break points and then seized the opportunity to lead 4-3 in the tiebreaker. Herbert and Mahut were dominant in front of the net during the game. Together they won their 18th title.

Tennis fans have taken aim at the chair umpire in the French Open women’s final after the match between Barbora Krejcikova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova ended in farcical scenes.

Barbora Krejcikova won her first Grand Slam title by winning over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 in the French Open final. This was only the fifth major tournament in singles for Krejcikova, a 25 year old from the Czech Republic.

Krejcikova won her maiden grand slam singles title after beating Pavlyuchenkova to become the first Czech woman in 40 years to conquer Roland Garros.

The 25 year old Krejcikova dedicated her victory to her mentor, the former Wimbledon champion Jana Novotna who died of cancer at the age of 49 in 2017.

She is the third unseeded women’s champion in the last five years at Roland Garros. Krejcikova now will try to become the first woman since Mary Pierce in 2000 to win the French Open singles and doubles titles in the same year.

Who is favored to win US Open 2021?

Djokovic is a heavy favorite on the men’s side. Djokovic has won five of the eight meetings, but Medvedev has won three of the past five and the 25-year-old should come out firing in pursuit of his first title. He also should have much fresher legs, having lost just one set while the 34-year-old Djokovic has dropped the first set in four straight matches.

In Women’s side the US Open final will be Raducanu’s first top-level final. The 18-year-old has already set a few records as she is the first qualifier – man or woman – to reach a Grand Slam final while she is hoping to become the first British woman to reach a major final since Virginia Wade won Wimbledon in 1977.

Favourites to win US Open 2021

• MEN’S US

Novak Djokovic -141

Daniil Medvedev +400

Alexander Zverev +600

Stefanos Tsitsipas +900

Matteo Berrettini +2000

Andrey Rublev +2800

Jannik Sinner +3300

Milos Raonic +3300

Denis Shapovalov +4000

Felix Auger Aliassime +5000

Andy Murray +6000

Aslan Karatsev +6000

Nick Kyrgios, +6000

Karen Khachanov +6000

Hubert Hurkacz +6000

 

• WOMEN’S US

Emma Raducanu +375

Leylah Fernandez +500

Naomi Osaka +1200

Angelique Kerber +1600

Elina Svitolina +1600

Aryna Sabalenka +1600

Stefanie Voegele +2000

Zhang Shuai +2000

Sara Sorribes Tormo +2200

Shelby Rogers +2500

Belinda Bencic +2500

Victoria Azarenka +3300

Maria Sakkari +3300

Paula Badosa +3300