2024-06-03 10:53:42
New Delhi: France’s high feminine participant Alize Cornet, who holds the report for taking part in 69 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments, retired from tennis on Tuesday after being knocked out within the first spherical of the French Open. Cornet misplaced 6-2, 6-1 to seventh seed Zheng Qinwen within the first spherical.
Cornet, a 34-year-old French participant, was given a wild card entry into the event. She had already introduced that this is able to be her final event. French Tennis Federation President Gilles Moreton and event director Amelie Mauresmo additionally attended the ceremony held on the court docket after the match.
Cornet thanked her household and French followers. She mentioned, ‘You could have stuffed me with unbelievable feelings. It’s exhausting to imagine that I’m feeling this for the final time.’ Cornet holds the ladies’s report of taking part in 69 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments. She participated in each Grand Slam event from the Australian Open in 2007 to the French Open this yr. Nonetheless, she by no means progressed past the quarter-finals.
Though Alize Cornet misplaced her singles match, she’s going to nonetheless compete within the ladies’s doubles and blended doubles occasions earlier than retiring from tennis. She performed skilled tennis for almost 20 years. She gave her greatest on a wet day in Paris below the roof of the Philippe Chatrier court docket, however Australian Open runner-up Zheng was no match for her. Cornet misplaced the primary set simply and fell behind shortly within the subsequent set as nicely.
She hugged Cornet after the match ended on the web. Individuals in the principle stadium stood up and began applauding the native participant. Zheng’s subsequent match shall be towards American participant Ashlyn Kruger or Germany’s Tamara Korpach.