Jul 28, 2024; Paris, France; Andy Murray (GBR) and Daniel Evans (GBR) have a good time after beating Taro Daniel (JPN) and Kei Nishikori (JPN) within the males’s tennis doubles first spherical throughout the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer season Video games at Stade Roland Garros. Necessary Credit score: Amber Searls-USA TODAY Sports activities PARIS — Andy Murray once more staved off the top of his illustrious profession as he and British doubles accomplice Daniel Evans beat Belgium’s Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen in one other Paris Video games cliffhanger at Roland Garros on Tuesday.
Two-time Olympic singles champion Murray and his accomplice had been cheered on by a sizeable British contingent on a sizzling and muggy evening on Court docket Suzanne Lenglen as they received 6-3, 6-7 (8), 11-9 to achieve the quarterfinals.
However the rating didn’t inform the entire story.
The British duo squandered two match factors in a nerve-jangling second-set tiebreaker and appeared to be heading out because the Belgians moved forward within the third set, main 9-7.
However for the second match in a row, Murray and Evans merely refused to simply accept defeat and hit again to win, with Evans banging a profitable smash to spark delirious celebrations from the British pair and Murray wanting near tears.
Within the earlier spherical Murray and Evans beat Japan’s Kei Nishikori and Taro Daniel in astonishing vogue, saving 5 successive match factors within the remaining set once they trailed 9-4.
The 37-year-old former World No. 1, a three-time Grand Slam champion, will retire after the Olympics, however the ending to the ultimate chapter of his profession may nonetheless be a golden one.
“What occurred once more was unbelievable, we’re getting shut,” Evans advised reporters. “Actually near doing one thing fairly particular. I do not suppose he desires to go house.”
In contrast to towards the Japanese in Spherical 1, when Murray admitted they had been fortunate to get via, the British duo regarded in cost for many of Tuesday’s match, solely to falter close to the top.
However as soon as once more they discovered some magic when required.
“We all know we have to carry out at a very excessive stage in a few days’ time to undergo however you construct confidence by profitable matches like that,” mentioned Murray, who received singles golds in 2012 and 2016 however pulled out of the singles this time.
“I believe your opponents see that you simply’re coming again while you’re behind and that builds perception. However you’ll be able to’t have that mentality of like, that is simply going to occur,” Murray mentioned.
“We have to be switched on for the subsequent one.”
Murray and Evans will subsequent play both U.S. duo Tommy Paul and Taylor Fritz or Dutch crew Robin Haase and Jean-Julien Rojer, who will play Wednesday.
–Reuters, Particular to Subject Degree Media