Dijon City Open. The finals, when you don't want to…

Sunday, the City of Dijon open ended with the bitter tasting victories of Astrid Lew Van Foon (n°40, Quimper) and Robin Bertrand (n°37, Loon-Plage) consecutively at the abandonment of Gaëlle Desperrier and withdrawal of Johan Tatlot.

Although played in two sets, the four semi-finals did not lack interest. Gaëlle Desperrier (n° 34, Clermont), 36 years old, deprived of air her 17 year old junior, the Ukrainian Veronika Podrez (n°30), resigned at the end, 6-4, 6-2, and the Finistère Lew Van Foon controlled left-hander No. 25, Amandine Monnot, 6-4, 6-4.

On familiar ground

In the gentlemen's exchanges, brief and powerful, Johan Tatlot (n°60) pinned 7-6, 6-1, the strong Luc Fomba (-15) on the backhand with a magnificent hand, almost leading, 5-4, many times on its maousse service. As for the n°1, calm like Bertrand (n°37), he kept Freire Da Silva (n°88) at bay, 6-4, 6-1.

Desperrier and Lew Van Foon had already won on campus, the first four times, the second, then ranked -4/6, in 2021. Drum beating, the Clermontoise started the final as best as possible, 6-2, before a medical break . “Ruffled”, she led her opponent into a blur until she abandoned her at the start of the last set. “I would have liked to win on a regular basis,” said the 20-year-old Breton, who has been a student at an academy in Plaisir since the start of the school year. Facing the winner Bertrand, 21 years old, 262^e ATP, 6 ITF victories, Tatlot's withdrawal (arm) could have requalified Fomba (federal regulations) but the latter called himself “carbo” and declined the invitation. When it doesn't want to…

RESULTS

Ladies. – quarter-finals: Desperrier (n°34, Clermont) b. Sugnaux (n°47, Reichstett, SUI), 6-2, 6-3; Podrez (n°30, Meudon, UKR) b. Leclercq (n°52, La Gde-Motte), 6-3, 6-2; Lew Van Foon n°40, Quimper) b. Gravouil (n°42, La Roche/Yon) wo; Monnot (n°25, Fontainebleau) b. Truong (-4/6, Annecy), 6-1, 6-1. Semi-finals: Desperrier b. Podrez, 6-4, 6-2; Lew Van Foon b. Monnot, 6-4, 6-4.

Finale : Lew Van Foon (n°40) b. Desperrier (n°34), 2-6, 6-1, 1-0, ab.

Gentlemen. – quarter-finals: Bertrand (n°37, Loon-Plage) b. Tepmahc (-15, La Fourragère), 6-3, 6-0; Fomba (-15, Pleasure) b. Bouquier (n°44, Strasbourg), 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (1); Tatlot (n°60, Blanc-Mesnil) b. Sinius (-2/6, Sucy), 6-3, 7-6; Freire Da Silva (n°88, Gien) b. Ifi (-15, Pleasure), 6-3, 7-6.

Semi-finals: Tatlot b. Fomba, 7-6, 6-1; Bertrand b. Freire Da Silva, 6-4, 6-2. Finale : Bertrand (n°37) b. Tatlot (n°60), wo.