Returning to the center runs this Tuesday to complete a match started the day before, the Frenchman offered himself one of the most beautiful victories in his career, in five sets.
Arthur Rinderknech did it! This Tuesday on the short center of Wimbledon, the French, 72nd world player, dropped the number 3 Alexander Zverev in five sets (7-6, 6-7, 6-3, 6-7, 6-4) and 4:44 of the game (over two days).
Not destabilized by the match of the match on Monday evening, due to the curfew established during the tournament, the Habs returned with the same intentions this afternoon (there was a set everywhere during the recovery). The German Zverev wins a bitter defeat. The hecatombe in the heads (Medvedev, Rune, Musetti, Tsitsipas …) continues in London.
Winner in more than 4:40 am, Rinderknech will be measured in the next round at Chilean Cristian Garin (110th), winner Monday in three sets of Luxembourg Chris Rodesch. “”My legs are still trembling, I only slept six o’clock last night“Reacted the winner, moved, in his post-match interview. “”This sport is tough, but what a good time! This is my first victory against a top 5, on the most beautiful short in the world», Reverse French.
Zverev fall in entry, a first since 2019
ATP 250 finalist from Stuttgart and semi-finalist of Halle ATP 500 in June, Zverev had not lost in the first round of a Grand Chelem since the 2019 edition of Wimbledon. He had reached the Australian Open final in January, before being beaten in the quarterfinals of Roland-Garros by Novak Djokovic. If Wimbledon is the only one of the four Grand Chelem tournaments of which Zverev did not reach the final, the Hamburgeois still hoisted three times in the round of 16 at the All England Club.
Rinderknech for his part reached the second round in 2024, his best result to date. Trained since the start of the Gazon season by the former N-10 world Lucas Pouille, the Frenchman won in June on the London lawn of the Queen’s his first success against a member of the Top 10, the American Ben Shelton (10th). He then led a hard life to the world N.2 Carlos Alcaraz in the quarter -final, without this time to win against the future winner of the tournament, double title in Wimbledon.
Zverev is the fourth member of the top 10 to take the door in the first round of Wimbledon, after the elimination Monday of the Danish Holger Rune (8th) and the Russian Daniil Medvedev (9th), and Tuesday of the Italian Lorenzo Musetti (7th).
