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31st racket after knockdown to Kanepi 77the the world was able to keep up with a lower-ranked player than her, dominating in straight sets 6-3, 6-2, Japan’s 111th-ranked Mai Hontana. But the move against Ons Jabeur was too high. The 19-year-old Frenchwoman beat her first Top 10 player, the Czech Barbora Krejcikova, at Roland Garros in May, which has been downplayed because of Covid. But at Wimbledon, Jaber, the world No. 2, was too strong. “I am very disappointed with what I produced. I couldn’t resist any more. I struggled with his ball quality. Due to the wind, I had a lot of trouble finding the distance with the ball, which made me make a lot of mistakes. And I couldn’t get loose in my strokes.»
For his first time on Center Court, Boulognez started the match particularly hard. Broken twice from the start, he conceded two breaks from the start to take a 5-0 lead. ” He brings a lot of variation to the game. Her lump is fusing and hurting a lot. He makes a cushion when you don’t necessarily expect it, and he changes rhythms very well. He is a very complete player. I was very worried about the quality of his ball hitting. And he will go far in this tournament.»
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Parry assures him that it is not the fact that he is playing on the legendary center court for the first time in his career that can explain his difficult start to the match. ” No, I especially had trouble adjusting to the quality of my opponent’s ball. And I was having a hard time dealing with the swirling wind that wasn’t helping matters. The feeling, I had it especially before entering the court the way we go to enter the court. We feel the weight of this short story right now. Then, if it’s great, it didn’t make much of an impression on me. Less than the center of Roland Garros, which is more impressive. »
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Center Court gave him a small ovation as he won his first game, coming back 5-1 before dropping the first set 6-2. Then in the second set, the debates were a little more balanced. More enterprising, the former world junior champion then competed in the exchange, landing some beautiful winning forehands. Up to 3-3. Before dropping the last 14 points of the match. ” I missed two or three chances on his serve. In the seventh game, he put pressure on my serve. I made two, three mistakes and it went by really fast“. The young French woman, leaving the Center court under pleasant applause, wanted to keep positive. Having reached the third round of the Grand Slam tournament twice, that’s not necessarily what I expected at the beginning of the year. Of course, that satisfies me. It proves that I can beat good Grand Slam players and that I can go further.. Last season’s quarterfinalist, the Tunisian will face either Angelique Kerber or Elise Mertens of Germany in the next round. On paper, the 27-year-old Tunisian, who won in Berlin in Germany on June 19, remains the main opponent of Iga Sviatek.
Source: Le Figaro
