It was a small feat that the young Aixois Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg achieved by winning the Quimper Open against Pierre-Hugues Herbert. In sixteen editions, he is only the second player from the qualifications to win the Sud-Finistérien challenger.
The big leap forward
Before him, only Andrey Rublev arrived there in 2016 against Paul-Henri Mathieu. But at the time, the Russian, then aged 19 and a half, was already classified N.210 ATP, while Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg was in the 470th place when he arrived in Quimper.
Pointed, because in the classification that the ATP will publish on Monday, Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg will climb around 250th in the world. A big leap in front that the person concerned, winner of four future tournaments for nine finals disputed from 2022 to 2024, still had trouble achieving after the awards ceremony.
“It's incredible. It often happens to have qualified who arrives in the semi-finals of a tournament, but from there to win it … When the painting came out, few people expected my journey. Pierre-Hugues was scheduled. Not me.
In the final as in his six previous games on this Quimper week, Sacha Gueymard Wayenburg has shown a lot of solidity in different sectors of play and not only with his service that he is able to send to more than 200 km/h (12 aces in the final).
“Not in overheating
“What is interesting is that he was not overheating, never seemed on a wire, with a rather complete game. For a 2003 (player born), it is promising, notes the former Quimperlois Tennis player and responsible for press relations Charles-Antoine Brézac.
However, I played my best game of the week, but he really knew how to raise his level of play from the second set by being hyper present at every moment. I could only admit defeat myself, ”adds Pierre-Hugues Herbert, deprived of a third title in Quimper after his success in 2014 and 2024, but already ready to return next year to a tournament that 'He loves.
-“I changed a lot”
I dropped my shots more than in the semi-final where I was more tense. We will say that the semi-final served me well for the final, ”explains the winner who changed a lot in his game by integrating the Elite Tennis Center by Jean-René Lisnard in Cannes.
“We changed the strategy of my game. Physically, we also did a huge job too, which allowed me to keep the pace this week. And I'm now going to look for my points more on the fly. »»
In front of his parents who arrived specially from Marseille (via Paris) at noon, Sascha Gueynard-Wayenburg therefore took a new dimension in Quimper where he did not think he was going so far in the table.
“I am going to India Tuesday for a tour of three challengers (Chennai, Delhi and Pune), but I will still have to go back by Express Cannes to recover things, because I had not taken enough, thinking to be eliminated more early. Another life can start for him.
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