There will be no quarter-finals for Alexandre Müller in Lyon. The Frenchman, 90th in the world, in fact fell this Tuesday in the second round of the Open Parc, under powerful assaults in exchange from the Russian Pavel Kotov, victorious in two sets (7-6 [8], 6-1). However, there was a fight throughout a first set that went to the decisive game without either player granting the slightest break point.
The Frenchman (27 years old) will be able to regret the two unforced errors committed on his two balls in the first round in the tie-break (backhand at 7-6, forehand at 8-7), before finally ceding the set to the Muscovite . The recent eighth finalist at the Masters 1000 in Rome, who fell to Andrey Rublev, could not recover.
Less physically bleeding, often attacked behind his second service ball, the Ile-de-France native suffered the game in the second set, found himself two breaks behind at the start (4-0) and dropped the set 6-1. Müller will now take charge of Roland-Garros, where he will directly enter the big picture.
