Roland-Garros 2024: Pouille stops at the start, Thiem passes the first round… What to remember from Monday’s qualifying day
Roland-Garros 2024 edition, it starts today. The first qualifying matches for the French Open started on Monday May 20, with some great names on the bill: Dominic Thiem, Lucas Pouille, Benjamin Bonzi, Benoît Paire, Harmony Tan… Here is the results of this first day of the qualifications on Parisian ocher.
The first French headliners to set foot on the ocher of Roland Garros, Lucas Pouille and Benoît Paire fizzled out. The French, respectively 165th and 155th in the ATP, both lost in two sets. Facing the Serbian Hamad Medjedovic, 134th in the ATP, for Pouille (6-3, 7-5) and facing the Slovak Jozef Kovalik, 146th in the world, for Paire (6-1, 6-4). As a result, they took the door in the first round of qualifying.
Opposed to the winner of the last Masters Next Gen (20 years old), Lucas Pouille suffered for a long time from the returns of his opponent before seeing the rain intrude. A long interruption in the second of the second set suggested a good comeback but the step was too high for the native of Hauts-de-France.
1st round of qualifying: Lucas Pouille loses to Hamad Medjedovic
Hamad Medjedovic joins the second round of qualifying by winning against Lucas Pouille in straight sets (6-3, 7-5). The Frenchman was dominated throughout the match, like the last game.
If the Suzanne-Lenglen court deployed its roof to compensate for the bad weather, it was a veil that was lifted over the rest of the tournament for the Habs, who had nevertheless managed to reach the second round of the main draw during from the previous edition. Broken white on his closing serve, the former world No. 10 leaves it to his opponent to face Filip Krajinovic in the second round.
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