“Qualifying for Roland-Garros: Surprises and Upsets at the Porte d’Auteuil”

2023-05-22 21:10:00

The Porte d’Auteuil does not yet vibrate to the sound of hundreds of spectators, and yet the bullets are already flying. Some will never see the doors of the Parisian Grand Slam open, but for others, qualifying for Roland-Garros is an opportunity to create a surprise. The first is French. On Monday, Margaux Rouvroy, 278th player in the world, dominated the former finalist of the tournament and ex-winner of the Australian Open Sofia Kenin in two sets (6-4, 6-3), during the first qualifying round. She is one of six Tricolores out of the fourteen in the running to have qualified for the next round.

The 22-year-old French player benefited from the clumsiness of her opponent, guilty of 46 unforced errors during the game against only 13 at the French. More powerful in the service and surprising with her one-handed backhand, Margaux Rouvroy cracked a Kenin who is only a shadow of herself. But given the record of the two players, the feat is there. In the next round, the Frenchwoman – who is participating for the first time in her career in qualifying for a Grand Slam tournament – will have to get rid of Iryna Shymanovich, 211th player in the world.

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In search of the precious sesame: Let’s go for the qualifications

A DAY AGO

It goes for Pouille and Ferro

To conclude this qualifying day, Lucas Pouille, who fell to 670th in the world, did not regain his former level but he still managed to eliminate the Czech Tomas Machac (127th at the ATP) in two sets 7 -5, 6-3. Very offensive, the Northerner was the most solid in an unbridled match, which saw the two players accumulate 25 break points. Pouille saved eight of the eleven he faced, when his vis-à-vis dropped half of his service games.

The former 10th player in the world banishes the bad memory of Roland-Garros 2022, when he was beaten by another Czech player, Zdenek Kolar in the first round of the big table. Present on the Challenger circuit since, Lucas Pouille regains victory on the ATP circuit a year after his last success, in the 1st round of the Masters 1000 in Madrid. He will face the Taiwanese Chun-Hsin Tseng, 215th player in the world, in the next round.

In the ladies’ table, Fiona Ferro remembered Roland-Garros fondly, she who had been the last Frenchwoman in the running in 2020, reaching the round of 16. In difficulty in recent months and fallen to 462nd in the world, the native of Belgium dominated the Spaniard Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (173rd at the WTA) in three sets (6-3, 1-6, 6-1). Finally, Nina Radovanovic, invited, beat her French compatriot and also wild-card Lois Boisson in three sets 1-6, 6-2, 7-5.

Couacaud totally cracks

He came very close to seeing further in these qualifications, but his mind cracked. While leading 6-3, 5-0, Etienne Couacaud, 156th in the ATP, completely collapsed to finally lose 3-6, 7-6, 6-2 against the Austrian Filip Misolic , 142nd player in the world, after 2h36 of play.

As for the other Tricolores, Dan Added put in a good performance by taking out the German Maximilian Marterer in straight sets 6-4, 6-4, while Sasha Gueymard Wayenburg (392nd player in the world) offered himself the American Denis Kudla, 139th at ATP (6-4, 6-3).

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Medvedev, the double blow: seeded 2 at Roland, he caps Djoko at the post

YESTERDAY AT 5:48 PM

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Murray also absent at Roland

YESTERDAY AT 11:43

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