Busy first day. On the night of Monday to Tuesday, the first thirteen French men entered for the US Open Championship in the heat of New York. If some of them, not spoiled by the attractionthey couldn’t do anything, like Varvara Gracheva, swept away by Coco Gauff (6-2, 6-0) or Kyrian Jacquet, powerless against Grigor Dimitrov (6-3, 6-4, 6 -2), others launched on Wednesday.
This is especially true of him Gael Monfils. Against another top 10 in the person of Diego Schwartzman, who fell to 244th in the world and from qualifying, the veteran of tennis tricolor took a set to settle before his appearance (6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-2, 6-1). Author of a regular season, the semi-finalist of the 2016 edition became the second player in history to win at least one match in all four Grand Slam tournaments in the same season at the age of 37, after Roger Federer. Statistics confirm how far the Frenchman, who will still have a lot to do in the second round against Casper Ruud, is seeded No.8.
Burel stopped Arthur Ashe Stadium
In the female portrait, the blue light came from Clara Burel. Facing 2017 US Open winner Sloane Stephens, the 23-year-old Briton turned around a very bad situation. Trailing 6-0, 3-0 and then 6-0, 4-1, the 56th player in the world stopped the impressive Arthur Ashe Stadium to enjoy a fantastic comeback and win (0-6, 7- 5, 7 -5), not without being broken twice while his American opponent was serving for the match.
Earlier in the day, Ugo Humbert maintained his French ranking as number one against Brazilian Thiago Monteiro (6-3, 6-4, 6-4), while Arthur Rinderknech won at the end of the super- ties of the fifth set. against local host Christopher Eubanks (6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6).
Arthur Cazaux, Alexandre Muller and Diane Parry confirmed their ticket for the second round.
2024-08-27 06:36:00
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