{"id":446492,"date":"2026-01-30T03:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446492\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T03:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:20:07","slug":"home-heroes-gadecki-and-peers-go-back-to-back-with-australian-open-mixed-doubles-title-australian-open-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446492\/","title":{"rendered":"Home heroes Gadecki and Peers go back-to-back with Australian Open mixed doubles title | Australian Open 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Local duo Olivia Gadecki and John Peers surged back to defeat French pair Kristina Mladenovic and Manuel Guinard in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/australian-open\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a> mixed doubles final, taking Saturday\u2019s early afternoon clash via a match tiebreak 4-6, 6-3, 10-8 in 93 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Australians \u2013 who defended their title \u2013 became the first team to retain the mixed doubles trophy at Melbourne Park since Jana Novotna and Jim Pugh backed up in 1989.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">They struggled to settle in a first set against the French pairing led by Mladenovic, the former women\u2019s doubles world No 1 and a top 10 singles player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">But a single break in the second set was enough to square the contest, and in the match tiebreak they overcame a 5-7 deficit to take the title on their second match point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">More to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local duo Olivia Gadecki and John Peers surged back to defeat French pair Kristina Mladenovic and Manuel Guinard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-446492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}