Aurélien Canot, Media365, published on Thursday May 23, 2024 at 6:15 p.m.
While perhaps waiting for Mathias Bourgue and Quentin Halys to do the same on Friday, Grégoire Barrère, on the men’s side, and Léolia Jeanjean, on the women’s side, both winners on Thursday of their third qualifying match of the week, validated their ticket for the big draw at Roland-Garros.
Grégoire Barrère and Léolia Jeanjean make the cut. Both concerned by the qualifications for Roland-Garros, which are being contested this week, Barrère and Jeanjean won their ticket for the main draw of the Parisian tournament, the draw for which had been made a few hours earlier. Our two representatives won their third victory, synonymous with qualification, this Thursday, while perhaps waiting for Mathias Bourgue and Quentin Halys to imitate them on Friday. After the eliminations (in the 2nd round) of Harmony Tan, Alice Tubello and Margaux Rouvroy, Jeanjean was the last survivor in the women’s draw. The 28-year-old French player, who reached the 3rd round at Porte d’Auteuil in 2022, after having been shunned for a long time by the French Tennis Federation, was scared by the young American Robin Montgomery, 182nd in the ranking. Despite losing the first set, the 143rd in the world, who will play her third Roland-Garros, managed to overthrow her 19-year-old opponent – “I like to scare myself and I like matches with twists and turns”, admitted the interested party then – to thus gain the right to participate in the tournament for the third year in a row.
Barrère had never won a qualifying match before!
The Montpellier woman, who had the honors of the Suzanne-Lenglen court, joins Chloé Paquet (guest), Caroline Garcia, Jessika Ponchet (guest), Alizé Cornet (guest), Clara Burel, Océane Dodin, Fiona Ferro, Diane Parry, Elsa Jacquemot , Kristina Mladenovic (guest) and Varvara Gracheva in the painting. Among the men, there will ultimately be sixteen French people. Like his compatriot, Barrère also came out of qualifying. Opposed to Denis Kudla on Thursday, the Ile-de-France native who had already participated in Roland-Garros seven times also won in pain (2-6, 6-2, 6-3) against the American. Probably revengeful after learning that he would have to compete in the qualifiers when he had the right to expect an invitation given his good start to the season (he reached the semi-finals in Bucharest and Bordeaux last week), Barrère , who had never won a match in Roland-Garros qualifying before beating his young compatriot Papamalamis on Tuesday, achieved his goal. Adrian Mannarino, the returning Kei Nishikori, Carlos Alcaraz, Hubert Hurkacz and Frances Tiafoe are among Barrère’s possible opponents in the 1st round.
2024-05-23 16:15:00
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