Italy’s adventure at Roland Garros begins with a victory. To give it to him is one of the most experienced Italian tennis players, the Ligurian Fabio Fognini. The blue gives an important show of strength and closes in three sets against the Australian Alexei Popyrin, not a clay court player but always a rather insidious opponent.
Three sets fought but with a victory never questioned, Fabio closed the match with a clear 6-4; 7-5; 6-4. The blue appeared happy and optimistic, he talked about Paris and many other topics in the post-race conference: “I’m happy with how things are going but I’m acquiring more and more family rhythms.
Flavia helps me and it is essential, but I have three children, Federico will soon go to first grade and I have to make their rhythms coincide with mine. Roland Garros? I’d like to play the sixteenth, but we will see at the end of the season when we will draw conclusions “
Fabio Fognini and the Wimbledon decision
Fognini was clear and direct about this possibility: “I congratulated Andrea (Gaudenzi, ed) for the choice, but there are also rumors of a possible cut of the prize Money. You know that I don’t have a great feeling with the grass, consequently I could bring my family to Formentera “
A reference to Roland Garros could not be missing and Fabio talks about the possible ride of the young Spanish talent Carlos Alcaraz, considered by many even as the first favorite, together with world number one Novak Djokovic.
The thirty-five-year-old Italian declares: “In the last few months he has had an evident leap in quality, four tournaments won and a continuous growth, but I would think carefully before putting Alcaraz in front of Rafael Nadal here in Paris in the predictions”
Nadal that Fabio could get right in the third round, obviously in case of success of the Spaniard and above all of victory of the Ligurian against the Dutch Van de Zandschulp, one of the most fit tennis players of the moment.
