We start with the Masters 1000 in Rome which ended yesterday Monday with the men’s and women’s singles finals, after playing the doubles finals on Sunday. On the women’s side, the victory went to the pair, composed of Su-Wei Hsieh and Barbora Strycova, who disposed, by 6/2, 6/2, of Anna-Lena Friedsam and Raluca Olaru. On the men’s side, the last word went to the Argentinian Horacio Zeballos and the Spaniard Marcel Granollers who beat, in the final, the French Jérémy Chardy and Fabrice Martin by 6/4, 5/7 and 10/8.
Sunday where we played, also, the semi-finals of the singles where the N ° 1 of the table, the Romanian Simona Halep, had recourse to the decisive round (6 / 3.4 / 6.6 / 4) to eliminate the Spaniard and N ° 9, Garbiñe Muguruza, in order to meet, yesterday in the final, the N ° 2 of the table and title holder, the Czech Karolina Pliskova, who left the N ° 12, the Czech Marketa Vondrousova, by means of 6/2, 6/4. On the men’s side, yesterday’s final pitted the Serbian and world No. 1, Novak Djokovic, and the Argentinian Diego Schwartzman who qualified, respectively, at the expense of the Norwegian Casper Ruud (7/5, 6/3 ) and the Canadian and N ° 12, Denis Shapovalov (6/4, 5/7, 7/6 [4]). Two finals which put an end to the Masters 1000 in Rome whose comments will be the subject of our next edition.
It’s tough
Still with the Gentlemen to take the direction of Germany and its ATP 500 of Hamburg which started the weekend with the qualifying table where four players punched their ticket for the main draw of the tournament. After two laps, the Americans Tennys Sandgren and Tommy Paul, the Czech Jiri Vesely and the Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas moved on to the big boys where they were already in the race yesterday for the round of 16. This German tournament where the two headliners are the Russian Daniil Medvedev and the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas alongside other tenors. Strong for this Germanic meeting.
Back to France for the Strasbourg Internationals for women who also went through the qualifying anteroom where the qualified only had to play one round to move up a notch. We have named the Chinese Shuai Zhang, the American Christina Mchale, the Belgian Greet Minnen and the Australian Ellen Perez. This tournament which has already seen the elimination of the N ° 6, the American Amanda Anisimova beaten by the Swiss Jil Teichmann (6/2, 6/3) who will face, afterwards, with the Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova who Eliminated, for her part, the Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck by 6/3, 7/5. It’s gone, therefore, for good on the clay on the edge of Roland-Garros.
M. BELAOULA
The Romanian Simona Halep, who has not lost since a defeat at the Australian Open against Garbine Muguruza, took her revenge in three sets and 2:17 fight Sunday against the Spanish (6-3, 4-6 , 6-4). In the final, she had to meet, yesterday Monday, the defending champion Karolina Pliskova. Even if she complicated herself, leading 4-2 in the second set, the Romanian was in the final Monday for the third time in Rome, the first since 2018.
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