Santiago González and Giuliana Olmos became the first Mexican duo to reach the mixed doubles final at Wimbledon. Olmos also became the first Mexican woman finalist in the Open Era at the All England Club at the same event.
MIXED DOUBLES FINAL
A rain-hit tournament meant the mixed doubles final was moved to Sunday and the pair of Santiago Gonzalez and Giuliana Olmos, who became the first Mexican duo to reach the title clash, will look to cap off a successful week with a trophy.
They face the seventh-seeded team of Pole Jan Zielinski and Taiwanese Hsieh Su-wei.
The Mexican couple is formed by Santiago Gonzalez and Giuliana Olmos, they qualified for the mixed doubles final by beating the Argentine Maximo Gonzalez already the Norwegian Ulrikke Eikeri by 6-3 y 7-6 (5).
The Americans, in their second tournament together after playing here also in 2021, took the first set and came back from 0-3 down, a set point down and a 3-5 deficit in the tiebreak to win the match.
Gonzalez and Olmos took the last four points of the match and will play their first mixed final against the winner of the Zielinski/Hsieh and Venus/Routliffe.
In the entire history of mixed doubles there is only one Mexican winner, Yola Ramirez that won Roland Garros in 1959 next to the British Billy Knight.
Source: ESTO
Source: MDP Newsroom from México Daily Post on 2024-07-13 11:19:54
