Gabriela Sabatini with Gisela Dulko. They will play the Roland Garros Legends Tournament together.
The Tournament of Legends of Roland Garros opens its game with an edition focused above all on Argentina: this Tuesday Gabriela Sabatini and Gisela Dulko will debut on the brick dust of Paris against the American duo of Lindsay Davenport Y Mary Joe Fernandez, two former world top 5 and Grand Slam champions. The match, valid for the first date of group A and at the Suzanne Lenglen stadium, starts at hours 6 o’clock (now Argentina) and is televised by ESPN 2 and Star +.
On June 6, 1995, Gabriela Sabatini played her last professional match at Roland Garros. That season, she arrived in Paris as eighth-seeded and progressed smoothly to the quarter-finals, losing a clear 6-1, 6-0 defeat to second-seeded Steffi Graf.
This Tuesday, 27 years after that duel against the Germanswho was at the same time his main rival and his great double mate, the woman from Buenos Aires returns to trample the Parisian brick dust, with a racket in her hand.
Its slope is cool37 years old and retired since 2012, came to occupy number one in the world in double and added in that specialty 17 trophiesincluding the Women’s Masters 2010 and the Australian Open 2011 with the Italian Flavia Pennetta.
Argentines go first Lindsay Davenport (45), former world number one and champion of the US Open 1998, Wimbledon 1999 and Australia 2000 in singles, and Mary Joe Fernandez (50), who reached the 4th step of the ranking, was individual finalist in the French “big” in 1993. Together, the Americans won the doubles title of this tournament in 1996.
The French will play in the same area Tatiana Golovin (34 years old), 2004 doubles tournament champion, e Natalia Tauziat (54), former first 3; and Croatian Majoli VAT number (44), who finished fourth in the standings and won in Paris in 1997, with another venue, Maria Pierce (47), who won the trophy in 2000.
In group B the Czechs will play Martina Navratilova (65), former number one and two times Roland Garros champion, the Italians Schiavone (41), winner of the title in 2010, e Pennetta (40), who rose to the top of the doubles rankings, the Americans Rennae Stubbs (51) and Chanda Rubin (46), Slovak Daniela Hantuchova (39), the Bulgarian Magdalene Maleeva (47) and the French Sandrine Testud (fifty).
After the Italian round, the winners of the two areas will meet in the final, next Saturday.
Among others, names such as the Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis, the Swedish Mats Wilander, the Croatian Goran Ivanisevic, the German Tommy Haas and the French Guy Forget, Henri Leconte, Fabrice Santoro and Arnaud Clement stand out.
Source: Clarin
