Wimbledon – It was an incredible ride. Until then, the wider tennis public practically unknown Frenchman Lois Boisson (22) shocked the tennis world through the ride to the semifinals of the French Open. All this from the position of a player who belonged to the position of the Paris tournament in the second half of the fourth hundred. All the more disillusionment came a few days later. Twenty -two -year -old tennis player ended in the opening round of qualification at Wimbledon.
Boisson – Branstine 2: 6, 7: 6, 4: 6
When Lois Boisson dominated May 11. Bisson had been unwanted for several weeks before, when the tournament in Rouen frustrated British Harriet Dart after the debacle 0: 6, 3: 6 recommended her through the main referee of deodorant.
An unknown French woman began to write on Roland Garros. At home Grand Slam, Elise Mertens, Anhelin Kalinin, Elsa Jacquemot, Jessic Pegulu and Mirra Andreyev, gradually knocked out before her later champion Coco Gauff in the semifinals.
The unbelievable series of Boisson included ten winning matches in a row and a sharp rise in the ranking of up to 65.
How difficult it is to follow up on such a successful period, the Frenchman recognized immediately. When trying to play the main competition Wimbledon, she had to qualify, where she was in the first round Carson Branstine.
A Canadian, who came to the previous tournament in Hertogenbosch to the eight -final round, where she even eliminated Ljudmila Samson, showed that she could do it on the fastest surface. In the first set of Parisian heroine, she swept 6: 2, in the second, she fell in the tie-break.
The decisive set, however, belonged again. She gained a set of 6: 4 and can look forward to the semi -final qualifying duel with the famous compatriot, Grand Slam champion from the US Open, Bianca Andreescu.
