Australian Open: Enzo Couacaud is the only Frenchman in the 3rd round of qualifying

The qualifications for the first Major of the year turned into a fiasco for the Blues. While they were 12 at the start in the men’s singles table this week, only Enzo Couacaud still has a chance to enter the big leagues after two laps. He easily mastered the Czech Vit Kopriva (6-3, 6-3) Wednesday in 1:06 of play, while his compatriots Quentin Halys and Constant Lestienne lost respectively to the Italian Alessandro Gianessi (3-6, 6-3 , 7-6) and Chilean Alejandro Tabilo (6-1, 7-5).

On the women’s side, Tessah Andrianjafitrimo, who was the last survivor, also surrendered against the Austrian Julia Grabher (7-5, 6-2). Couacaud therefore confirms his good start to the season, since he reached the Bendigo Challenger final last week. Quentin Halys can really have regrets. Against Gianessi, he had no less than 5 match points in the decisive tie-break (including two in a row with 6 points to 4), before losing 12-10.

To get his sesame for the big table of this Australian Open, Couacaud will have to get rid in the third round of the Serbian Nikola Milojevic, 139th player in the world.