French Open: Bianca Andreescu knocks out Victoria Azarenka, Gael Monfils survives first-round scare
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By Sabyasachi Chowdhury: 2-time Grand Slam champion Victoria Azarenka did not advance to the second spherical of the French Open 2023 girls’s singles after dropping to 2019 US Open winner Bianca Andreescu inside the first-round match on Tuesday, May 30. Andreescu gained the match 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 at Court Simmone-Mathieu in two hours and 20 minutes.
No.18 seed Azarenka, who made her strategy through to the Australian Open quarters earlier this yr, dominated midway through the second set with the score-line finding out 6-2, 3-1 in her favour. But Azarenka made a stupendous comeback, saving 12 out of 16 breaks to return up trumps.
Andreescu made 24 unforced errors, nonetheless made up for the same with 47 winners. The Canadian bought right here into the occasion at Roland Garros after dropping three matches in a row. After her hurt retirement in direction of Ekaterina Alexandrova inside the Miami Open, she confronted first spherical exits in Madrid and Rome, dropping to Wang Xiyu and Marketa Vondrousova.
Andreescu, who can be a former World No.4, is subsequent set to face USA’s Emma Navarro inside the second spherical on Thursday, June 1.
Gael Monfils holds his nerves
In the boys’s singles, hometown boy Gael Monfils survived a big scare inside the first spherical after beating Argentina’s Sebastian Baez 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 1-6, 7-5 at Phillipe-Chatrier. Both avid gamers broke each other’s serve 9 events. Monfils appeared tentative on the second perform he gained solely 39 % of things from them and likewise made seven double faults.
But the 36-year-old pulled off six aces and turned out to be an essential challenge inside the recreation. Monfils, who grew to develop into a father with Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina last yr, will subsequent lock horns with Holger Rune, who is likely to be brimming with confidence, having first overwhelmed Novak Djokovic, Casper Ruud and Daniil Medevev inside the Italian Open after which defeating USA’s Christopher Eubanks 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-2 inside the first spherical at Roland Garros.
