French Open | TENNIS ONLINE: Macháč is bothered by the American favorite in the first round of the French Open! The fifth set is played

The weather for the first days of the Paris Grandslam does not promise any solar charts, and Benjamin Macháč, a Benjamin from the Big Four tournaments, will enter difficult conditions. After an excellent qualification, in which he did not lose even a set, he will enter a duel with Taylor Fritz.

However, the excellent American, who had a shovel in the third round of the recent US Open of the later quarterfinalist Denis Shapovalov, prefers a hard surface. It does not belong to the top in clay, which was also seen in two preparatory tournaments in Rome and Hamburg. This is one of the reasons why even a nineteen-year-old native of Beroun cannot explicitly complain about the bad luck.

If he succeeds, we will see shortly after noon, if the program does not affect the expected rain.

Rublyov won the third tournament this year in Hamburg

Russian tennis player Andrei Rublyov won the clay tournament in Hamburg before the French Open and this season, interrupted for half a year by a coronavirus, he is celebrating his third title. For the first time, the company won the ATP 500 category. Stefanos Tsitsipas, a second-seed Greek, lost 6: 4, 3: 6 and 7: 5 in the final.

Rublyov in the general made a great turn at the clay grand slam in Paris. In the battle of two 22-year-old players, Tsitsipas was already leading the world six in the decisive set 5: 3, but the native of Moscow showed strong nerves and made up for the disappointment of Hamburg’s clay from last year, when he lost the final duel with Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili.

This year, only the world number one Novak Djokovic has more titles on the ATP circuit, by one. Rublyov won the Doha and Adelaide tournaments at the beginning of the season. Today, the 14th player of the ranking won the fifth trophy in his career.

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