Arthur Fils Expresses Frustration with Crushing Defeat at Wimbledon

A crushed racket by repeatedly hitting his shoe violently sums up all the frustration accumulated this Thursday by Arthur Fils opposed, as at Roland-Garros, to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the first round of Wimbledon.

Hardly beaten in three sets (7-6 [3]6-1, 6-2), the young Frenchman will undoubtedly come out of his match even more exasperated than in Paris where, despite winning a set for his Grand Slam baptism against the 34th in the world, he was in pain. digested his defeat (6-1, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3), hot.

Faced with the same always formidable Spaniard, whatever the surface and particularly on rapid, Fils played an excellent first set, breaking to lead 3-1 before letting himself be caught at 3-3. He held the pace imposed by the seeded number 31, until the decisive game where he had to run after a mini-break conceded entry.

Solid on serve, hard-hitting from the baseline and very effective in countering the accelerations of the 19-year-old French wild card, 61st at the ATP, Davidovich Fokina scored the first set by passing 60% of first serves and winning 80% of dots behind them.

It was then thought that a possible relaxation of the eldest would be beneficial to the younger. But on the momentum of this first round, “ADF” never let go of its grip unlike its adversary, less enterprising and quickly overwhelmed. The games went by and after 1h46 of play, Fils left the London Grand Slam on a Thursday afternoon of the first week, but after only one contested match, surely disappointed with his record on grass (four victories in qualifying, but none in a draw final). It remains to be seen whether the “slight injury” he mentioned when withdrawing before facing Carlos Alcaraz in the first round of Queen’s will have left traces 15 days later.

2023-07-06 12:16:27
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