The laurel defenders remain on their way
The defender of the title at the France’s Open Tennis Championship in Paris, Spaniard Carlos Alcarazhe secured the quarterfinals. In the eighth finals, in four sets after three hours and 19 minutes of fighting 7: 6, 6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 4, he beat 13. Bena Shelton.
“I think we respect each other very much. In the end, we showed the viewers a really nice show. I enjoyed it myself. He can make any blow at any time, which is of course a big challenge, « Alcaz said after the match. In the quarterfinals, the Spaniard will play with the next American, 12. Tommy Paul. This one was three times with 6: 3 reliably better than Australian Alexei Popyrin.
Iga Šwiatek was very pleased with the listing in the quarterfinals. Photo: Julien de Rosa/AFP
On this Sunday, with which the curtain fell over the opening week of this year’s Parisian tournament, was also the defender of the laurel in the women’s competition: Polish woman Iga Šwiatek chased a Kazakh competit Deer ribakino with 1: 6, 6: 3, 7: 5.
After the first set, the Polish celebrity showed badly, then twisted the story and chased Ribakina for the first time ever. In the overall balance sheet, Iga now leads Iga 5: 4. « Jelena is a great actress, and since we’ve played many times, I am well aware of how difficult to beat her, » looked out of the four -time winner Roland-Garroswhich is now a new duel with an actress from Eastern Europe – in Tuesday’s quarterfinals she will compete with Ukrainian Elino Svitolino. Finally, they competed in March in Miami – the Polish woman was better with 7: 6, 6: 3.
