Argentine tennis player Nadja Podoroska has reached the semi-finals of the French Open,WTA 131.), who on Tuesday beat one of the tournament favorites Jelina Svitolin (WTA 5th) from Ukraine in two sets.
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Podoroska, 23, who had never beaten anyone before “Grand Slam“The first round of the tournament, the opponent defeated with the result 6-2, 6-4.
The Argentine-born tennis player broke Svitolin four times in the first set. In the second set, Svitolina was in the lead with a result of 4-3 before her service. However, the Ukrainian tennis player missed the advantage, but Podoroska used a match ball at the end of the game with the third pass.
Podoroska for the first time in his career played against the ranking of “top-20” tennis players. The Argentine tennis player had dropped to 508th place in the world two years ago and was unable to secure her way to several tournaments.
“It’s hard for me to talk at the moment,” Podoroska admitted after the game. “I don’t want to wake up. The hardest moment was two or three years ago. I had suffered too many injuries. I fell in the rankings. I was out of the WTA tour for eight months. Then I didn’t have the money to resume playing in tournaments.”
The journey continues for @nadiapodoroska!
As she books her spot in the semifinals!#RolandGarrospic.twitter.com/JjLGVAamMT
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In the semi-final round, Podoroska will meet with the Polish representative Iga Schwignon (WTA 54), who on Tuesday played Italy Trinisan (WTA 159) with the result 6-3, 6-1.
In the first game of the day, which was previously postponed due to rain, the American Daniel Collins (WTA 57) secured the place in the quarter-finals, with the result 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 defeating the Tunisian athlete Ons Žabūra (WTA 35th).
Collins will meet with compatriot Sofia Kenny (WTA 6) on Wednesday. Triumph will secure a match against Czech Peter Kvitov (WTA 11th) or German Laura Sigemund (WTA 66th) in this fight, which will also take place on Wednesday.
A surprise is also expected in the men’s singles competition. Argentine tennis player Diego Schwarzmann (ATP 14.) with the result 7-6 (7: 1), 5-7, 6-7 (6: 8), 7-6 (7: 5), 6-2 defeated the winner of this year’s US Open Tennis Championship Dominik Tima (ATP 3.). Thus, the tennis player has become the first athlete to reach the semifinals of the men’s tournament.
The game lasted more than five hours and consisted of several very long games. The first four sets took place in an extremely tense atmosphere until Schwarzmann convincingly defeated his titled opponent in the fifth set.
The Argentine tennis player expects the winner of the second game of Tuesday, where he meets 12. “French Open“champion Rafael Nadals (ATP 2.) and Italian tennis player Janniks Sinners (ATP 75).
The quarter-finals will take place on Wednesday Novok Djokovic (ATP 1.) and Pablo Karenjo Busta (ATP 18.), as well as Andrejs Rubļevs (ATP 12.) and Stefanoss Cicips (ATP 6.).
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