Tennis fans will be spoiled all week with the return of the CO’Met Orléans Open. The 19th edition begins this Sunday with the qualifying matches on the courts of the Arena d’Orléans and Saint-Cyr-en-Val, free of charge, before starting the serious stuff on Monday with the first round.
Let’s note that fate decided two French-French matches in the first round: Lucas Pouille vs Hugo Grenier and Pierre-Hugues Herbert vs Grégoire Barrère. Despite everything, the French players are well distributed in the table, rejoices Didier Gérard, the director of the CO’Met Orléans Open.Lucas Pouille, Richard Gasquet, Luca Van Assche do not meet against each other, so it is a very well balanced draw with other foreign players like Denis Shapovalov, the very talented Canadian, who was top 10 not so long ago and Fearnley, the Englishman who did exploits in Rennes by winning the tournament when he was not the favorite.“
So do we have any chance of a French victory? “As there are more than ten French players in the draw, we hope for the French public and for French tennis that the players will shine on national territory.answers Didier Gérard. But the level is so high that we can’t predict it. In any case, I hope so for the atmosphere and the interest of French tennis.“
