Serena Williams’s partner in the 1998 French Open mixed doubles final was Luis Lobo.
The unseeded American-Argentine team reached the championship match at Roland-Garros, where they faced Serena’s sister Venus Williams and Justin Gimelstob. Venus and Gimelstob won the final 6–4, 6–4, making Luis Lobo the runner-up partner rather than the champion’s partner.
This match is easy to mix up because several names in the options were connected to the 1998 mixed doubles draw. Mahesh Bhupathi was a defending champion, while Serena later won the 1998 US Open mixed doubles title with Max Mirnyi. Justin Gimelstob was Venus Williams’s partner in Paris, not Serena’s.
The final was also part of a remarkable year for the Williams sisters. Venus and Gimelstob won at Roland-Garros, while Serena and Mirnyi captured Wimbledon and the US Open mixed doubles championships. Serena’s pairing with Lobo therefore belongs to the French Open’s runner-up record, not her Grand Slam title list.