Tokyo Olympic Event – Day 2 DOUBLES final results

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With the elimination of Gabriela Dabrowski and Sharon Fichman, the No. 7 seeds in the first round of women’s doubles on Saturday, Canada has no more participants in the doubles.

Hopefully we’ll see Dabrowski and Félix Auger-Aliassime in the mixed; the sign in for that is Tuesday in Tokyo.

They are planning to play; but a lot of water under the bridge between now and then.

Tokyo Olympic Event – Day 2 SINGLES final results

It would (to say the least), be Auger-Aliassime’s first big-time mixed doubles experience.

Meanwhile, Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic had their sartorial act together – after what happened in Rio (above). They were not matchy-matchy enough (something they blamed on the FFT paper pushers. Garcia, then sponsored by Nike, had to take a Mladenovic adidas dress and turn it inside out to pass inspection.

But they didn’t have their tennis act together sufficiently, and so they went down. And their Olympics are over.

(11 a.m. Tokyo time is 10 p.m. Saturday night EDT).

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Women’s doubles, first round

Belinda Bencic / Viktorija Golubic (SUI) def [2] Shuko Aoyama / Ena Shibahara (JPN) 64 67 (5) [10-5]
~~Darija Jurak / Donna Vekic (CRO)~~ [ALT] Sara Errani / Jasmine Paolini (ITA) def. [8] Nicole Melichar / Alison Riske (USA) 62 57 [10-2]

[1] Barbora Krejcikova / Katerina Siniakova (CZE) def. Yu-Chieh Hsieh / Chieh-Yu Hsu (TPE) 62 61
[3] Kiki Bertens / Demi Schuurs (NED) def Caroline Garcia / Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 76 (4) 57 [11-9]
[4] Bethanie Mattek-Sands / Jessica Pegula (USA) def. Magda Linette / Alicja Rosolska (POL) 61 63

Nadiia Kichenok / Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR) def. Sania Mirza / Ankita Raina (IND) 06 76 (0) [10-8]
Ellen Perez / Samantha Stosur (AUS) def Jelena Ostapenko / Anasasija Sevastova (LAT) 46 61 [10-5]
Paula Badosa / Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP) def Giuliana Olmos / Renata Zarazua (MEX) 62 67 (4) [10-7]
Karolina Pliskova / Marketa Vondrousova (CZE) def Yingying Duan / Saisai Zheng (CHN) 62 61

Men’s doubles, first round

Lukas Klein / Filip Polasek (SVK) def [4] Aslan Karatsev / Daniil Medvedev (RUS) 75 64

[3] Juan Sebastian Cabal / Robert Farah (COL) def. Pablo Carreno Busta / Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP) 62 64

Oliver Marach / Philipp Oswald (AUT) def. John Millman / Luke Saville (AUS) 75 62
Marin Cilic / Ivan Dodig (CRO) def. Taro Daniel / Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) 62 64
Marcus Daniell / Michael Venus (NZL) def. Egor Gerasimov / Ilya Ivashka (BLR) 63 76 (6)
Lorenzo Musetti / Lorenzo Sonego (ITA) def Pablo Andujar / Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP) 75 64
Austin Krajicek / Tennys Sandgren (USA) def John Peers / Max Purcell (AUS) 36 76 (5) [10-5]