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Australia have clinched a history-making Olympic gold medal in tennis after Matt Ebden and John Peers won the men’s doubles final. The Aussies fought back from a set down to win 6-7 7-6 over American fourth seeds Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram in a nail-biter. Ebden and Peers, both 36, came into the tournament as unseeded underdogs, but leave with gold medals. Their wives and children were watching on and immediately joined the champions after the match point.
But the Australians, who’d played a few tournaments together and reached a couple of finals, just wouldn’t lie down, with Ebden relighting their fire, playing a brilliant game in the second set to help break Ram for 4-4 before exhorting the crowd, including plenty of compatriots, to get behind them. Down to a second tiebreak, Ebden and Peers began to play their best tennis to drop just one point and take the match into a super tiebreak finale, with the gold for the first to 10 points.
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