PARIS, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- In the first gold medal tennis match at Paris 2024, the Chinese mixed doubles pair of Wang Xinyu and Zhang Zhizhen lost a nailbiter 6-2, 5-7, 10-8 to the Czech Republic's Tomas Machac and nine-time Grand Slam doubles winner and Tokyo women's doubles gold medalist Katerina Siniakova.
Machac and Zhang, often competing as teammates in doubles in professional games, this time stood opposite
