Irina-Camelia Begu is not the most famous tennis player on the circuit. The Romanian is playing her eleventh Roland-Garros at the age of 31 and she will long remember this second round on court number 13. Opposed this Thursday to the seeded number 30 Ekaterina Alexandrova, she came close to disqualification like the racket she threw on the ground and which bounced near a child sitting in the front row with his family.
This gesture of humor intervened in the decisive third set. Her opponent had just broken her (2-0) when she committed this slippage. The supervisor is then called onto the court. She receives a warning for unsportsmanlike conduct, which is not to the taste of the public and the Russian. A few seconds later, Alexandrova in turn expresses her anger by throwing a ball off the court and receives the same sanction. Totally out of her match, she will end up losing (6-7 [3], 6-3, 6-4). Irina-Camelia Begu will hasten on her side to go and hear from the boy and take a picture with him.
The 63rd player in the world will be opposed in the next round to the tricolor surprise of this fortnight, Léolia Jeanjean. Thursday noon, the Montpellier woman dominated in two quickly dispatched sets (6-2, 6-2, and 1h15 of play) the Czech Karolína Pliskova, seeded n ° 8 and semi-finalist in 2017 on the Parisian ocher.
