French Open 2021: Herbert and Mahut are in the finals after fended off match points
The two French Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut are in the final of the French Open in Paris for the second time after 2018.
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last edit: Jun 10, 2021, 10:44 pm
There could be something else with a home win for the French at the Grand Slam event in Paris: Pierre-Hugues Herbert and his partner Nicolas Mahut are after an exciting match against the favored duo Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah, in which they are also three Had to fend off match points against each other in the final of this year's double competition of the French Open. The home side prevailed 6: 7 (2), 7: 6 (2) and 6: 4 and will fight for their second joint title in the clay court major after 2018 on Saturday.
While the first set had to be decided without major incidents in the tiebreak, in which the second seeded Colombians were able to prevail 7: 2, the second round was really tough. Cabal / Farah took the break to 3: 2 lead to zero and earned three match points from their point of view when the score was 5: 3, none of which they could use. On the contrary, the now visibly unsettled world number two team had to give up their service game to 15 immediately afterwards. In the short decision this time it was the French who finished 7-2.
In the final against surprising Kazakhs
The third set was opened by Messrs Herbert / Mahut with a successful return game. And they didn’t give up this break until the end of the sentence. After 2:52 hours, the 6: 4 set win was dry.
In the final, the sixth in the world rankings face the unseen Kazakh pairing Andrey Golubev and Alexander Bublik, who in turn were able to take the Spanish pairing Pablo Andujar and Pedro Martinez out of the competition with 1: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4. While Bublik was in the semifinals of the Australian Open 2020, the much more experienced Golubev had never made it past the second double round in a major tournament.
Here the double tableau in Paris
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