Hugo Dellien’s smile after taking Dominic Thiem out of Roland Garros. Photo: EFE
Bolivian tennis player Hugo Delliennumber 87 in the world, qualified this Sunday for the second round of Roland Garros after beating Austrian Dominic Thiem in three sets, 6-3, 6-2 and 6-4 in two hours of play.
The South American tennis player did not give any choice to Thiem, double finalist at Roland Garros (2018 and 2019) and champion at the US Open in 2020, but who has been struggling for nearly a year to recover from a wrist injury and this year he has not yet won the five games he has played since he returned to the field in March. For this reason, the former number three on the planet has fallen to step 194 of the ranking.
In a more balanced first set, the South American tennis player was able to break the Austrian’s serve to take a 3-1 lead and maintain the ‘break’ until the partial was scored.
Hugo Dellien applauded his loser, Dominic Thiem. Photo: EFE
In the next two, Dellien made the entry break and didn’t suffer to maintain the advantage against a tired Thiem, who made many unforced errors (42 for 14) and didn’t look for even a ‘break’ ball. in all battles.
Dellien, 28, achieved his third win in a main draw of a Grand Slam, as so far only two second rounds at Roland Garros and the US Open have counted as his best results, both in 2019.
The Bolivian will now play against Russian Karen Khachanov (N.24) or the Portuguese Nuno Borges (N.126 and coming from the classification, to achieve what will be the best result in a ‘big’.
Goodbye Jabeur
Ons Jabeur had his debut and farewell to Paris. Photo: AFP
On the other hand, in the women’s draw, on Sunday she delivered one of the great surprises of the day. Tunisian Ons Jabeur, who came from WTA 1000 champion in Madrid and finalist in WTA 1000 in Rome, was left out in the first round against Polish Magda Linette, who won 3-6, 7-6 (4) and 7-5 .
Linette, 52 in the world and never advancing to the third round in Grand Slam tournaments, took advantage of the Tunisian lack of concentration, the first Arab tennis player to reach the top of world tennis.
After his title in Madrid and reaching the final in Rome last week, Jabeur, the first Arab tennis player to reach the top of world tennis, emerged in Paris with the best record of the season on the slow court: 17 wins and three losses. And he is one of the contenders who, at least, will go far in the tournament and fight the great favorite, the Polish Iga Swiatek.
Magda Linette hit the punch to Ons Jabeur. Photo: AFP
But he surprised the veteran player from Poznan, who will face Italian Martina Trevisan or British Harriet Dart in the second round.
Jabeur started the game well and won the first set 3-6, but it became complicated when he beat the second in the tie break and ended up poorly playing key points, such as two net misses in the last game at his service. with 40- 15 to force a tiebreaker.
Source: AFP
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