{"id":438624,"date":"2026-01-30T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/438624\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:49:08","slug":"olivia-gadecki-john-peers-repeat-in-australian-open-mixed-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/438624\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Gadecki, John Peers repeat in Australian Open mixed doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan 29, 2026, 10:14 PM ET<\/p>\n

MELBOURNE, Australia — Olivia Gadecki<\/a> and John Peers<\/a> became the first team to win consecutive Australian Open mixed doubles titles since 1989 after beating the French pair of Kristina Mladenovic<\/a> and Manuel Guinard<\/a> 4-6, 6-3, 10-8 on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Australians trailed 7-5 in the final-set tiebreaker before coming back to lead 9-7. On match point and with Peers serving, Guinard hit a backhand into the net to clinch victory for the home players at Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n

Wild-card entries Gadecki and Peers were the first reigning Australian Open mixed doubles champions to return to the final the following year since Mladenovic and Daniel Nestor<\/a> in 2015. The 23-year-old Gadecki was born 13 years after Jim Pugh and Jana Novotna went back to back in 1988 and 1989.<\/p>\n

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“Sort of a bit shocked,” Peers said. “That could have gone either way. Just sort of happy that we kept sticking with it . . . it was on a knife’s edge.”<\/p>\n

The French team won the opening set on its second set point when Peers hit a shot wide, three games after Mladenovic double-faulted on set point and the Australian team broke to keep the set alive.<\/p>\n

In the second set, Gadecki and Peers went ahead 3-1 on a service break and then held to take a 4-1 lead, winning 13 of 15 points to put them in control of the set and level the match.<\/p>\n

Mladenovic was trying to win her fourth Grand Slam mixed doubles title — she won Wimbledon in 2013 and the Australian Open in 2014 with Nestor and the 2022 Australian Open mixed doubles title with Ivan Dodig<\/a>. She also has six Grand Slam women’s doubles titles.<\/p>\n

“Winning a Grand Slam once is very difficult but defending it is even harder … big congrats to you!” Mladenovic said to Gadecki and Peers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 29, 2026, 10:14 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Olivia Gadecki and John Peers became the first team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-438624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}