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Roland Garros: the winner of the six-hour marathon that will play against Schwartzman and the first game of the night


Lorenzo Giustino. The winner of the second longest game in Roland Garros history will be Schwartzman’s next opponent Source: LA NACION – Credit: TV Capture

Six hours and five minutes, over two days. The Italian Lorenzo Giustino, 157 ° in the world ranking and coming from the classification, he beat Frenchman Corentin Moutet (71 °) by 0-6, 7-6 (9-7), 7-6 (7-3), 2-6 and 18-16 , for the first round of Roland Garros, in which it was the second longest match in the history of the tournament. The longest match in the history of the Parisian Grand Slam is still the one played in 2004 by the French Fabrice Santoro and Arnaud Clément, with 6:33 (Santoro triumph 6-4, 6-3, 6-7 [5-7], 3-6 and 16-14].

Another curiosity: Giustino, 29 years old and born in Naples, I had never won a match in a Grand Slam main draw,not even on the ATP circuit. Ante Moutet was the first match that also played the best of five sets. The duel had been interrupted on Sunday due to rain and resumed this Monday afternoon.

Moutet had easily won the first set, but Giustino was able to star in a comeback to remember, with a fifth set that lasted more than three hours. Finally he won with his third match point against a very irascible Moutet. “I don’t know how I feel. We played a really long game, so I don’t know. I don’t feel anything in my body now, I feel empty,” lamented the left-handed Moutet, one of the favorites of the local public.

On the other hand, Giustino said: “Neither of us wanted to lose, neither of us was wrong on the important points and we both gave our best. This is how you get to 18-16 in a fifth set. In the end I tried to look for winners. , because I knew that he was not going to give me the game.

Giustino will play in the next round against Argentine Diego Schwartzman, 14th in the ATP, who debuted on Sunday with a resounding victory over Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic. It will be the first confrontation between Peque and Giustino. Tomorrow, Schwartzman will play together with Federico Coria, at the start of the doubles tournament, against New Zealander Artem Sitak and Slovakian Igor Zelenay.

It was not the only novelty on Monday at this Roland Garros, which from this year has the lighting system to play night matches. The rain on the first day prevented playing until late, but on the second day it was played the first match ending after midnight at the French Grand Slam, in which the local Clara Burel beat the Dutch Aranxta Rus by 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-2) and 6-3, in a match that concluded at 0.10. Burel, a special guest by the organization, was number 1 in the junior world, is 19 years old and is the 357th in the female ranking.

What to finish a day almost at dawn is a recurring situation at the Australian Open, and it even happens sometimes at the US Open, but it’s absolutely new to this tournament, where more late-night sessions are expected once the pandemic is over and normalcy returns.

There was another record: the Spanish Feliciano López, just turned 39, played his 20th Roland Garros, a figure with which he equaled the French Francois Jauffret and Fabrice Santoro among the players with the most participations; In total, the left-hander has 74 consecutive appearances in Grand Slam tournaments, ahead of Fernando Verdasco (68) and Roger Federer (65). Of course: the passage through Paris did not last long, because he lost in his debut against German Daniel Altmaier by 7-6 (7-1), 6-4 and 6-4. Altmaier, 186 ° del mundo, is another of the players who entered from qualifying, and is trained by the Argentine Francisco Yunis.

And also, a Top 5 was fired. Daniil Medvedev fell 6-4, 7-6 (7-3), 2-6 and 6-1 against the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics. The Russian has a lousy record at Roland Garros, as he lost in the first round in all four of his appearances on Parisian brick dust. Recent semifinalist at the US Open, Medvedev took out his frustration with the poor racket at the end of the second set.

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