Routliffe through to mixed doubles quarter-finals at Roland-Garros

Erin Routliffe has kept her Roland-Garros hopes alive earning a slot in quarterfinals of the Mixed Doubles championships with her Swedish partner Andre Goransson.

Routliffe and Goransson beat the French pair of Leolia Jeanjean and Geoffrey Blancaneaux 6-4 6-2 in Paris overnight to set up a match in the quarters against Asia Muhammad of the United States and Nikola Mektic of Croatia.

Muhammad was Routliffe's women's doubles partner earlier this year while Mektic is well known to New Zealand tennis fans as the partner of our top men's doubles player Michael Venus in the first half of 2025.

Routliffe and Goransson, Sweden's top doubles player, teamed up on the doubles court at the Australian Open this year. He is married to her close friend.

The combination is definitely working at Roland-Garros. In their first round they knocked out the second seeds, Stefani/Arevalo in a deciding third set tie breaker.

In last night's round of 16, they won in straight sets against a French pair who had the home town advantage. The first set went with serve until the ninth game when Routliffe and Goransson earned a break and they they went on to serve out the set 6-4.

In the second set, Routliffe and Goransson dominated, breaking their opponents in the third game of the set to love. They then held their serve to love to take a 3-1 lead. They broke again in the seventh game and comfortably served out the match, again with a love game, to take the set 6-2 and take place in the last eight.

Routliffe also made the quarterfinals in the Mixed Doubles at Roland-Garros in 2024.