In short. Ugo Humbert in Russia

Ugo Humbert takes over hard. After a break on clay, the time of two beautiful tournaments in Hamburg and Rome then a raging first round in Paris, Ugo Humbert has found the hard, his favorite surface, this week in Saint Petersburg. The Russian tournament, usual rival of the Moselle Open, is part of the 500 category this year, just below the Masters 1000. If the table is well stocked (Medvedev, Shapovalov), the Messin will have an affordable first round on Tuesday against to the Russian qualifier Kotov, ranked beyond 200th place in the world and beaten on a similar surface at the start of the year by Harold Mayot.

Boris Fassbender wins at Basse-Ham. Solid fall tournament, Basse-Ham delivered its verdict this Sunday. With 155 participants, the Lorraine club was still full and was entitled to belels finals. In the ladies, Shelly Gerber (3/6, Cattenom) won over Marie Cercelletti (3/6, Moulins) with the relentless score of 6-0, 6-1. On the men’s side, two of the best Lorrainers were on the move and it was Boris Fassbender (-15, Forbach) who took the upper hand over Antoine Monaco (-15, Thionville Moselle) in two rounds there too (6-4, 6- 2).

Théo Papamalamis is wasting no time. Obviously, at 14, he is still far in the ranking of his elder Harold Mayot, world junior number 1. But Théo Papamalamis (1/6, Moulins-lès-Metz) climbs from week to week in the international ranking of the under-18s and finds himself very close to the Top 1000, which he will logically break the bar at the end of the year, when the players born in 2002 will leave the category. More than his rank, it is his tournaments that challenge: quarter-finalist in a Grade 4 in Macedonia, he rose to the semi-final of a Grade 5 in France last week.

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