Harold Mayot’s great adventure is over at Wimbledon. Out of qualifying, then winner in the first round of Benjamin Bonzi, the young Frenchman (21) was stopped Thursday by Guido Pella, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3), 7-5, in 2h42. But it can feed regrets. The door to the third round opened ajar in the last two sets, and he was unable to step into the breach.
Due to a serious knee injury, which sidelined him for a year, Pella is only 308th in the ATP. But, four years ago, he was a quarter-finalist at Wimbledon (after beating Kevin Anderson and Milos Raonic) and 20th in the world. His experience weighed heavily in the second half of the match, which Mayot (181st) did not really negotiate well.
Pella or Safiullin will be in eighths
Thus, he did not convert two break points in the fourth game of the third set. Worse, after successfully breaking the break just in time to reach the decisive game, he made four errors in this tie-break and let the Argentinian take control, two sets to one.
Rebelote in the fourth act, where he let three double break points pass (one at 2-0, two at 4-2), before committing a double fault which canceled his break lead (4-4). At 5-6, 30A, two redacted forehand volleys cost him the game. A heartbreaker.
2023-07-06 17:50:02
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