In the early morning of August 3, Beijing time, the tennis mixed doubles final of the Paris Olympics was held. Temporary pairings of China's Zhang Zhizhen/Wang Xinyu will face Czech Republic's Makhac/Siniakova. Zhang Zhizhen/Wang Xinyu lost to their opponents 2-6/7-5/8-10 in three sets, winning one Olympic silver medal, which was the first medal for Chinese tennis mixed doubles at the Olympic Games.
In the 5th game of the first set, Zhang Zhizhen/Wang Xinyu were broken on serve, and in the 7th game, the two were broken by their opponents again, and lost the first set 2-6 after losing 4 games in a row.
In the second set, both sides successfully held serve in the first 11 games, and in the 12th game, Zhang Zhizhen/Wang Xinyu broke serve in a hard-fought game that their opponents had to hold, and dragged the match into the deciding set 7-5.
In the deciding set, the tie-break Zhang Zhizhen/Wang Xinyu combination once led 3-0 and 8-6, but at the critical moment, the two lost 4 points in a row and lost the tie-break 8-10.
In a match that lasted 1 hour and 17 minutes, Zhang Zhizhen/Wang Xinyu lost 2-6, 7-5, 8-10 to the Czech Republic's Makhac/Siniakova, and won a silver medal at the Olympic Games. This is the second time that Chinese tennis has won a medal in the Olympic Games after 16 years, and it is also the third medal in the history of Chinese tennis in the Olympic Games.