Failing to shine in singles, French tennis has a blast in doubles. Frenchman Édouard Roger-Vasselin qualified this Thursday for the semi-finals of the ATP Masters in Turin, bringing together the eight best pairs in the world. In the company of the Mexican Santiago Gonzalez, he beat the American Austin Krajicek and the Croatian Ivan Dodig, respectively N.1 and N.2 in the world in doubles, 6-3, 3-6, 15/13 after having repelled several balls from match.
Titled in quick succession in Basel then at the Rolex Paris Masters, the 9th in the world began the “masters tournament” with a defeat against the Spaniard Marcel Granollers and the Argentinian Horacio Zeballos 2-6, 6-3, 10/ 7. They then defeated Argentinians Maximo Gonzalez and Andrés Molteni 6-4, 6-4 to put themselves in a good position before their final group match against the best pair in the world, against whom they had never won before today. today. Winner of five titles this season with Gonzalez, Roger-Vasselin is playing the Masters in doubles for the third time. He reached, and lost, the final in 2020 with Austrian Jürgen Melzer.
Djokovic must hope for a victory from Sinner
As for the singles, we are still waiting for the outcome of the last match of the first group between the Italian Jannik Sinner and the Dane Holger Rune to know the identity of the players in the first two positions.
After Novak Djokovic’s victory in three sets against the Pole Hubert Hurkacz (7-6, 4-6, 6-1), the Italian, with his two victories in as many matches including one against the world number 1, ensured his place even if he bows to Rune. In this case, and it doesn’t matter in two or three sets, it will be the Dane who will eliminate the Serbian from a distance. If Sinner wins, Djokovic will accompany the world number 4 in the semi-finals. “I did what I had to do, we’ll see what happens and whether or not I play in the semi-finals,” reacted the “Djoker” at the end of his match. Watch out for the big surprise…
