While last year, only two representatives made it through Wednesday, this time there are four to compete in the round of 16. The only downside is that the last French woman left.
“The 2011 generation is a big generation at the boys' level,” confided Mario Vukovic hotly after his victory against the Irishman Brodv Lee Stafford in the third rotation on Court number 1. The Frenchman, seed number 5 and leading figure of French Tennis for this 43rd edition of the Petits As, was the third Frenchman to join Thursday's day and the round of 16. Before him, the harvest had already started well thanks to Thomas Grévoul and Samuel Dakessian. The first brought down the number 11 seed (6-4, 6-1) before his compatriot eliminated the Russian Philio Smirnov (6-4, 6-2).
An almost perfect start to the morning for the Blues, who only lost Nans Manoukian. Opposed to the Hungarian Vencel Fazekas, the Gardois, licensed at Fourques, came within a whisker of achieving the feat of the day. Well into his match, he won the first set 6-3, leading to the awakening of the Hungarian, who won the second set despite a big comeback from the Frenchman. Led 5-1, he finally lost 6-4. In the third decisive set, carried by a white-hot Central, the Frenchman served to win the set at 5-4, in vain: it was finally the Hungarian who joined the eighth after coming very close to elimination.
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An elimination full of sadness for the Frenchman, who leaves the Central to applause, in tears, but which gives way to Evan Giurescu's rage to win. The number 12 seed, like Vukovic, upheld his ranking by winning in three sets against the solid Portuguese Francisco Sardinha (6-4, 6-7, 6-3). With this qualification, France had its four representatives there for the day on Thursday.
-At the same time, Léo Agnithey lost against the German Lucas Ariel Herrera (6-4, 7-5), a few hours before the last Frenchwoman competing in the final draw stormed out. Swept 6-3, 6-0 by the Englishwoman Liv Zingg, seeded number 4, Nadia Benyahia did not succeed in raising women's tennis this week. A day unfortunately ended with the defeat of Tristan Ducros (7-5, 6-4) at Central against Turkish Cinar Senkaya, seeded number 10.
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