Goransson and Routliffe shock second seeds in First Round of Mixed Doubles

[p]A shock looked to be on the cards when [b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/goransson-andre/bkGRha3F/"]Goransson[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/routliffe-erin/CvDr9J3L/"]Routliffe[/a] attacked [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/stefani-luisa/0K1SsbQq/"]Stefani[/a]'s first service game, both contributing winners to break serve in just the third game[/b], and the El Salvadorian/Brazilian duo failed to break back, as the rest of the set went with serve, giving the unseeded pair a 6-3 win.[/p][p]But the favourites showed their potential in the second set, seldom dropping a point from serve before finally earning a break in game eight off the serving of the New Zealander, who had no answer to Stefani's forehand, [b]before two-time French Open Men's Doubles champion [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/arevalo-marcelo/zLNFemL9/"]Arevalo[/a] served successfully for the set in the next game, taking it 6-3.[/b][/p][p]That took the match to a 10-point tiebreak third set, in which a double fault from Arevalo put the Swedish-New Zealander pair in the ascendency, only to let their opponents off the hook at the next point, as Routliffe was forced into an error following her own serve.[/p][p]The next five points went with serve, putting Goransson and Routliffe 5-4 up, before a crazy passage of play which saw the next five points go against serve, as the underdogs let a 7-4 lead close to 7-6, before going 8-6 clear.[/p][p]Stefani and Arevalo finally won a point off serve to reduce the gap back to one, [b]but two points well taken off the serving of the 32-year-old Swede got Goransson and Routliffe over the line, winning the match [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/goransson-a-bkGRha3F/routliffe-e-CvDr9J3L/?mid=juwoROM8"]6-3, 3-6, 10-7[/a].[/b][/p][p]They will meet French wildcards [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/blancaneaux-geoffrey/EFwAtztn/"]Geoffrey Blancaneaux[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/jeanjean-leolia/EDBO32wT/"]Leolia Jeanjean[/a] in the Second Round.[/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/tennis/mixed-doubles/french-open/"]Follow all the events at the 2026 French Open on Flashscore.[/a][/b][/p]