Gabriela Dabrowski and Felix Auger-Aliassime have ended Canada's medal drought in Olympic tennis after capturing bronze in mixed doubles at Paris 2024.
The Canadian duo beat Demi Schuurs and Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands 6-3, 7-6 (2) to earn their first-ever Olympic medal.
It is only the second time Canada has earned a medal in tennis, and the first since Sebastien Lareau and Daniel Nestor captured men's doubles gold in 2000.
This was one of two chances for Auger-Aliassime to earn a medal in Paris.
The No. 13th seed in singles, Auger-Aliassime will play the loser of a match between top seed Novak Djokovic of Serbia and No. 11 seed Lorenzo Musetti of Italy in the bronze-medal match.
Auger-Aliassime lost 6-1, 6-1 to No. 2 seed Carlos Alcaraz of Spain in a one-sided men's singles semifinal on Friday at Roland-Garros.
Despite the loss, the Olympic singles run was a major positive for Auger-Aliassime, who has had an up-and-down year. He notched upset wins over Daniil Medvedev and Casper Ruud to reach the semis.
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