Andy Murray & Laura Robson have won into the final of the mixed doubles at the Olympics tennis event at Wimbledon, and Team GB are guaranteed another gold or silver medal.
First up on Saturday the British duo edged through their quarter-final beating Australia's Lleyton Hewitt & Sam Stosur 6-3, 3-6, 10-8, before going on to defeat Germany's Christopher Kas & Sabine Lisicki 6-1, 6-7(6), 10-7 in the semi's.
"I'm super excited for tomorrow," said a delighted Robson after the semi-final victory. Murray added: "To be guaranteed two medals going into the last day is great. It was a great decision to play mixed doubles.
"Both matches are really important to me tomorrow. Whether it's the mixed or the singles, both medals count the same. I hope we can contribute to the medal table for GB."
In their first match of the day, for the second match in a row the pair recovered from being 2-5 down in the match tie-break and then they went on to win four points in a row from 6-8 to claim the victory.
"It was tight" said Murray afterwards. "We were better in the first set, they were better in the second and champions tie-break is a lottery. We did well to come back, we did a good job.
"Mixed doubles matches can be a bit up and down but when we have gone behind we’ve come back well and won two matches. Laura had two really good serves at the end."
Robson added: "We played well, it was definitely a tough match but we’re into the medal rounds now so that’s really exciting for me. Hopefully we can go further. This feels more serious [than Hopman Cup], the guys are going at you. I just have to try and get as many of their serves back as I can."
In the second match the British pair, who gained a place in the draw through an ITF place, stormed through the first set, taking it 6-1 before narrowly missing out on the second in a tie-break.
Which meant for a third time in a row their match was decided by a match tie-break, and after sharing the first 12 points the GB pair took four of the last five to win into the final.
The wins mean Murray & Robson are guaranteed a gold or silver medal on Sunday, as they play either Azarenka & Mirnyi (BLR) [1] or M Bryan & Raymond (USA) [3] in the final.
Murray now has two medals guaranteed and will be hoping for gold in the singles as he plays Roger Federer on Cenre Court in a repeat of their Wimbledon final on Sunday.
Andy Murray commented on his thoughts on the mixed event, in comparison with the singles: "A medal is a medal, doesn’t matter what it’s in; singles, doubles, mixed. It all counts the same. I want to try and win a medal in the mixed."
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