At almost 32 years old and for her 60th consecutive Grand Slam (two units from Ai Sugiyama’s record), Alizé Cornet is doing well, thank you! The French played a simply exceptional match to beat world No. 3 Garbine Muguruza in two small sets, 6-3, 6-4.
The relative dryness of the score would suggest that the Spaniard missed her subject a little. That’s not really the case. It was above all the Frenchwoman who was quite exceptional, producing from start to finish, almost without a hitch, tennis of an extremely high level.
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On the Rod Laver Arena, Alizé achieved several performances in one: first that of competing with her opponent in the sector of winning points (17 each), which says a lot about her level of aggressiveness against a player who is nevertheless reputed in the matter, which will have committed on the other hand more than the double of unforced errors (33 to 16). Another reference stat for the Niçoise: she was not broken once in the match, conceding only 13 points on her engagement and not a single break point.
This girl just wants to have fun
Facing a player she had already beaten last year in Berlin (on grass) by saving a match point, Alizé Cornet, extremely mobile despite a strap on her right thigh, made things very easy this time . She thus signed the 23rd success of her career over a top 10 player, the 4th in Grand Slam after those obtained against Serena Williams (Wimbledon 2014), Agnieszka Radwanska (Roland-Garros 2017) and Bianca Andreescu (Wimbledon 2021). In short, one of his greatest victories, certainly.
“I was in a perfect state of mind, not stressed, super focused, in my bubble, said the Frenchwoman during her interview on the court. Today, I especially wanted to have fun when I got back on the court. This is what I have sometimes missed in my career. I don’t know how long I have left to play so it will now be my leitmotif: to have fun.”
She also offered herself a nice birthday present in perspective: that of playing the 3rd round of the Australian Open on the very day of her 32nd birthday. It will be Saturday, against the Slovenian Tamara Zidansek, semi-finalist at Roland-Garros last year. If successful again, she will equal her best performance in Melbourne, an round of 16 in 2009. Have fun, Alizé!
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