Therefore, V.Gaubas will be able to open the doors of the main prestigious “US Open” tournament after a day, when he will fight for a ticket in the third qualifying round with the 8th player on the planet at the time, Argentinian Diego Schwartzman (ATP-246).
The fight in New York has already received serious attention, with the best cards for the qualifiers.
Already the first set became quite a sensation: the Lithuanian won four games and led 4:0, and won the set with a solid margin of 6:2.
In the second set, with the score 2:2, V.Gaubas won the Frenchman’s serve and took the lead 3:2, and then won a point by winning his own serve – 4:2.
Although the Frenchman won his serve, the Lithuanian also won it, and the result in the second set was 5:3.
Finally, V.Gaubas finished the set 6:4 and continues his fight for his debut at the US Open tournament.
This is the first time since 2005 that R. Gasquet did not qualify for the main US Open competition.
In the last third round of qualification, V.Gaubas will face 32-year-old Argentinian D.Schwartzman, who beat his compatriot 23-year-old Thiago Augustino Tirante (ATP-96) 7:5, 6:4 in the second round for a ticket to the main competition.
This victory gave V.Gaub 16 ATP ranking points and 52 thousand. US dollars. The prize pool of this year’s US Open tournament is the largest in the history of tennis – as much as 75 million. US dollars.
A little less than a month ago, these tennis players competed in Italy at the ATP “Challenger” tournament in Verona, and then V. Gaubas also managed to beat the Frenchman 7:6 (7:3), 4:6, 7:6 (8: 6).
French back in 2002 was the first world junior racket and became the Roland Garros and US Open junior singles champion.
He in 2007 He rose to the 7th place in the ATP ranking and spent more than 6 years in the top ten – R. Gasquet has won as many as 605 matches in ATP matches during his career.
in 2013 R.Gasquet also played in the semi-finals of the US Open, and during his 22-year career on the courts, he has earned 21.1 million. US dollars. This is the 27th result in the history of men’s tennis.
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