Mirra Andreev claims to the semifinals
On May 24, in Paris, at the courts of the Roland Garros stadium, the second large helmet tournament in the season – the opening championship of France in the season. For the main Russian hope in this competition, his last year’s semi-finalist Mirra Andreeva, who takes 6th place in the world ranking, the draw was successful, which cannot be said about Daniil Medvedev and Andrei Rublev, who at the end of the first week can get dangerous rivals.
The draw of this open championship of France was held according to the usual regulations of recent years. Most players were determined by the computer in the grids, and the fate of the seeded was decided by a specially invited person, which this time was a football player – striker PSG and French national team Usman Dembele. Not everyone was lucky. For example, a four -time crisis (2020, 202-2024) winner Roland Garros Polka Iga Shvetek, who descended in the ranking of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) from second place to the fifth, fell into the same half of the grid as the first racket of the world Arina Sobolenko, which at the start of the rivals went to Russian woman Camilla Rakhimova. As for the main Russian hope at the upcoming tournament, the 18-year-old Mirra Andreeva, who is in the sixth rating, she with a light hand Dembele hit the other, the lower half of the grid, where the second racket of the world is American Coco Gauff.
Apparently, Andreeva got an excellent opportunity to at least repeat her last year’s result – go to the semifinals.
In the first circle, she will meet with the Spanish tennis player of Moldavian origin from the last ten TOP-100, and in case of success, he will play with the American Ashley Krueger (37th in the world) or Dutchman Suzan Lamens (67th). In the 1/16 finals, the opponent of Andreeva can become Julia Putintseva from Kazakhstan (32nd), who closed the list of seedlings, and then the consequent decline in the results of the freshly baked Australian Daria Kasatkin (17th), who missed almost the entire primer season of the Spanish Paul Bados (10th) or 10th) or 10th) or the 10th) or the results of this couple can become. The ex-first racket of the world Japanese Naomi Osaka (49th) got into her rivals in the starting round. All these are already high -level tennis players, but recently they have not shine. And if the tournament struggle will develop in accordance with the rating, then in the quarter-finals Andreev will meet with American Jessica Pegula (3rd), which never passed further than this stage in Paris.
In general, the semifinals between Andreeva and Gauff, who met in the recent “thousands” in Madrid and Rome, where the American prevailed, is absolutely real. In any case, if Andreev was in the same company with Sobolenko, Schwekens and Italian Jasmine Paolini, who stopped her a step before the finals at last year, and recently won the Italian “thousand -year -old”, then the Russians would now quarrel below.
Two halves of the male grid also do not look equivalent, in any case – by the number of loud names.
At the top and the unconditional leader of the rating Italian Yannik Sinner, and last year’s finalist Alexander Zverev from Germany (3rd in the world), and this year of great progress, Briton Jack Draper (5th), and the great veteran Novak Dzhokovic (6th), who celebrated his 38th anniversary on Thursday. Two strongest tennis players in Russia Daniil Medvedev (11th), who in the first round will meet with the British Cameron Norri (90th), and Andrei Rublev (17th), who fell on one participant in the qualification. Due to the unimportant results of Russians in recent weeks, it makes no sense to look far into their future on Roland Garros, although it is clear that at the end of the first week of each of them it may be difficult to expect. Indeed, in the 1/16 finals of Rublev, in theory, it goes to the leader of the French tennis Artyur Fis (14th), to whom he in April without options lost in the second circle of Masters in Monte Carlo, and Medvedev at the same stage can play with the second missile of France South Ember (22), having a quarterly Roland Garros with a Russian quarterly 2021 a positive balance of meetings.
Below, of course, the last year’s champion and the leader of the current ground season Carlos Alcaras, the closest pursuer of Sinner in the ranking stands out. At least with other players who had previously won on the major, the Spaniard will not have to deal with the Spaniard before the final. In the quarterfinals, Alkarasu is able to compete with a two-time (2022, 2023) finalist of Roland Garros Norwegian Kasper Ruud (7th), and in the semifinals-Italian Lorenzo Muzetti (8th). But in principle, no one will be surprised if the Paris title, like the title of winner of the Italian open championship last Sunday, will play Sinner and Alcaras on May 18. Moreover, the Italian in this pair does not yet look like a favorite.
