Thomas Siniecki, Media365: published on Friday October 4, 2024 at 10:31 p.m.
The Vendée Challenger tournament gives pride of place to national players, including Lucas Pouille delighted with what he shows.
Lucas Pouille continues to rebuild his confidence on the Challenger circuit in France. After reaching the final in Saint-Tropez a little less than two weeks ago, the semi-finalist of the 2019 Australian Open (last French player to have reached such a level in a Grand Slam tournament) is in half in Mouilleron-le-Captif. While he had only faced one compatriot in the famous coastal town of Var, Pouille is currently playing a 100% French tournament in Vendée. After easily dominating Gabriel Debru in the first round (6-3, 6-2), it was more difficult against Calvin Hemery (6-7, 6-3, 6-3) and even more difficult against Manuel Guinard on Friday (4 -6, 7-5, 6-1).
“Very happy to hold a racket, stay strong and positive at all times”
“I start well, I dominate, then I play a bad return game with less intensity and that puts him back in. He was incredible for more than an hour, it’s nothing, breaks and unbreaks.. .I’m very happy to hold a racket, stay strong and positive at all times, it worked out in my favor and it’s great.” The opportunity for him to thank again, on the court, the public who came again quite massively (words relayed on beIN SPORTS): “Thank you for this support, it warms the heart to hear people chanting his name and it It’s also thanks to you that I hold on, to play in front of you and feel this atmosphere.”
And it is another Frenchman that Pouille will face on Saturday, in this case Harold Mayot, before perhaps completing a completely French week against the number 1 seed Quentin Halys in the final… While Richard Gasquet n was able to do better than the second round, falling on Wednesday against the Croatian Dino Prizmic – who will precisely be Halys’ opponent on Saturday -, Pouille confirms that he is not in the same dynamic as his glorious elder very close to the ‘farewell. Guaranteed to gain four places to go from 113th to 109th in the world, he could above all return to the top 100 in the event of final success.
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