Loïs Boisson, revelation of the last edition of the last Roland-Garros, was eliminated in the first round of the US Open, Tuesday, August 26, by the Swiss Viktorija Golubic, 72e world, which has imposed itself on the score of 3-6, 7-6 (7/3), 6-2.
Just under three months after her surprise semi-final in Paris, when she started the tournament in the 361e global place, the current French number 1, now 46e In the WTA ranking, bowed on the hard shorts of the last Grand Chelem tournament of the season, which she was playing for the first time at 22.
Eliminated in the first round of Wimbledon qualifying, at the end of June, on a lawn that she discovered, the clay specialist delivered a convincing start to the match on the short number 10.
Loïs Boisson quickly took the service of her opponent, to grant herself an advantage which she kept until the end of the first round. The second set was tighter, none of the players granting its service, despite opportunities on both sides. The 32-year-old Swiss has negotiated the tie-break better than her younger, who committed 45 direct faults on the whole match, to equalize a round everywhere.
Boisson then conceded its put into play from the first game of the last set. At 2-1 in favor of Viktorija Golubic, the Frenchwoman asked for the intervention of a physiotherapist and sat on her bench to have her tension measured. On her return to the court, she seemed physically to sentence, wiping a white game on her service (5-2) before her opponent concluded the game on her commitment, after 2 h 16 min of combat.
Among five French women present in the first round of the US Open, only Elsa Jacquemot (91st) and Diane Parry (107th) managed to continue their adventure in New York. The first will face Canadian Leylah Fenandez (world world) on Wednesday while the second will play on Thursday against Mexican Renata Zarazua (82nd).
Lorenzo Musetti Domine Mpesh Perricard, Royer Authoritaire
First match scheduled for Tuesday on the court Louis-Armstrong, the second in the New York hierarchy, the duel between the world’s number 10, Lorenzo Musetti, and Giovanni Mpeshi Perricard (37th) first turned to the advantage of the French, solid on his commitment and winner of the first round 7-6. But the French giant (2.03 m), formidable server, began to deregulate itself in the second act to bow 6-7 (3/7), 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.
“I managed to set up the game plan we had defined (…) Before the match, but it only lasted a set “he regretted after his third defeat in as many duels against Lorenzo Musetti. “Afterwards, I started to be a little short on some strokes. I had trouble holding the racket at the service. I started to have spasms, cramps in the forearm. I have a really explosive game and I had trouble finding the necessary relaxation to be effective. »»
Valentin Royer, winner in Wimbledon of his first Grand Chelem match, reoffended without trembling in the first round of the US Open. The 98th world dominated Chinese BU Yunchaokete 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 (7/1). He will face the second Canadian Denis Shapovalov (29th), also winner in three sets on Tuesday.
Opposed to the Belgian David Goffin (80th), Quentin Halys (70th) bowed, on the score of 6-7 (2/7), 6-4, 6-3, 7-5. Hugo Gaston (125th), who succeeded Loïs Boisson on court number 10, faces the Japanese Shintaro Mochizuki (112nd). Alexandre Müller (38th), opposed to the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (28th), and the veteran Gaël Monfils (49th), who will face the Russian Roman Safiullin (94th) at the end of the day, must still enter.
Pending their results, France currently has five male representatives in the second round in New York: Benjamin Bonzi (51st), Adrian Mannarino (77th), Arthur Rinderknech (82nd), Valentin Royer and Ugo Blanchet (184th).
