2023-06-02 19:52:33
The joy of Sonego, the Parisian public in the viewfinder. Panoramic
The Italian made an impressive comeback against Andrey Rublev and the Parisian public once again stood out…
A Roland-Garros,
Tops
The Sonego Comeback
Everything had started badly for the Italian. Andrey Rublev, recent winner of the Masters 1000 in Monte-Carlo, even inflicted a scathing 6-0 on Sonego in the second set, after 1h 20min of the match. Then the Russian lost his luster, and the Italian’s confidence gradually swelled with the victory of the third set 6-3 and the showdown of the 4e won in the decisive game. On his way, the Italian mastered Rublev in the fifth, to win in 3 h 42 min and reach for the second time in his career after 2020 the 8th Porte d’Auteuil. ” There were a lot of things going through my mind but I tried to stay focused on each point and enjoy the moment. The crowd helped me a lot during the game and I think I played my best tennis.»
The profile of Mertens
The doubles specialist managed the big performance of the day by taking out the third player in the world, the American Jessica Pegula, in two sets and 1 hour and 22 minutes of play, 6-1, 6-3. Mertens equals her best singles performance at Porte d’Auteuil, where she played in the round of 16 in 2022 and 2018. There she will face one of the two Russians who also face each other on Friday, Anastasia Potapova (WTA 25/ N.25) or Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (WTA 333).
Flops
The dissipated Parisian public
The Parisian public has been ruthless with a few seeded players over the past twenty-four hours. Ons Jabeur had suffered some “bouhhhhh” from the spectators who were a little too enthusiastic when she faced Océane Dodin on Thursday. Taylor Fritz had a bad experience with the stands of the Suzanne-Lenglen court a little too behind Arthur Rinderknech in the evening. This Friday, it was Novak Djokovic who paid the price for capricious assistance when at the very start of the third set, he called a doctor on the court. An intervention that provoked incomprehensible whistles from the spectators and a provocation to which the Serb responded with irony by raising his thumbs to chamber his detractors.
Sabalenka fails the press
Aryna Sabalenka was exempted from her meeting with the media after qualifying for the round of 16. In agreement with the tournament management, the Belarusian was exempted from a press conference because she feared being bullied on non-tennis issues concerning Ukrainian news. Forty-eight hours ago she was questioned by a Ukrainian journalist about her closeness to the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko. Sabalenka had refused to answer despite reminders from his interlocutor. A way for the tournament to preserve the mental health of the player who has been put to the test in recent months because of her nationality.
Andrey Rublev still docked in Paris
Seventh player in the world, the Russian once again went through in Paris when he was among the outsiders. Quarter-finalist last year, he faded this time before the round of 16 against a very solid Lorenzo Sonego, winner of a 3h45 long showdown between the two men (7-5, 6-0, 3-6, 6-7, 3-6). The Russian hasn’t done better than a quarter-final at a Grand Slam tournament since turning professional in 2014.
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