Aurélien Canot, Media365, published on Monday October 9, 2023 at 11:02 a.m.
Despite a very good match, this Monday against the American Tommy Paul, 12th in the world, Arthur Fils lost in three sets (6-4, 6-7, 6-4) in the 3rd round of the Masters 1000 in Shanghai. The young Frenchman will not see the round of 16, but he was not far from achieving a new feat.
Arthur Fils was able to tame Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the 2nd round. He was not far from also eating Tommy Paul, this Monday at the gates of the 8th finals of the Masters 1000 in Shanghai. Unfortunately for the great hope of French tennis (Editor’s note: He is only 19 years old), present recently alongside the superstars of the Laver Cup, to which he had the honor of being invited by the legend Roger Federer himself , he remained at the dock. Despite very good resistance and an excellent match once again, Fils lost in three sets (6-4, 6-7, 6-4) against the American ranked 12th in the world, for this which constituted the first confrontation between the two men. However, he may have big regrets. After having given up the first set to the man who is also seeded number 12 this week in China and had managed the entry break, on the first game of the match, the Ile-de-France resident indeed had the match in hand. Without succeeding in taking Paul’s service, however, as had already been the case in the first round, the 36th in the ranking this Monday thus equalized at one set everywhere after emerging victorious from a very contested decisive game (won 9 points at 7 by the Frenchman) and during which his opponent had obtained two match points. Son erased them with great aplomb.
Son breaks entry in the last set but does not hold
Better yet: in the wake of this cannonball end of the second round, the winner last May in Lyon of his first title on the ATP circuit broke the 12th in the world, in the first game of the last set. There was a smell of achievement in the air, especially since Fils seemed close to being unplayable even though this third round had barely started. The player coached by Laurent Raymond unfortunately quickly became disillusioned. On the next game (the second of the set), Paul immediately made up his break and came back to life even though he seemed very close to the KO. Unfortunately, this knockout never came, Fils never broke again and the American was able to conclude on his third match point. Really a shame, because the feeling wasn’t far away.
2023-10-09 09:13:31
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