PARIS (AP) — Teenager Moise Kouame french open That run came to a halt on Saturday when he lost to Alejandro Tabilo 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (9) in the third round.
Kuame, 17 years old Although he saved four match points, his resistance was finally broken when he fired a shot into the net. He walked around the net and hugged Chile’s opponent.
As in the previous two games, he entertained the raucous home crowd with a combination of down-the-line whipped forehands, sharp volleys at the net and improbable retrieves from the back of the court.
Kouame is ranked 318th. quite a showman In his Grand Slam debut, he gave two big downward fist pumps after winning the first set. When he broke to tie the match at 4-4 in the fourth set, the crowd was on its feet.
However, he could not stand Tabilo’s ruthless precision and waved goodbye to the fans at Suzanne Lenlencourt.
Kouame is from Sarcelles, a suburb of Paris, and was practicing in a Paris Saint-Germain soccer uniform before the match. Shortly after his match, PSG wins the Champions League In a tense final match held in Budapest, Hungary, they faced Arsenal in a penalty shootout.
The match was broadcast live to 48,000 fans at the Parc des Princes stadium in west Paris, just a few hundred meters from the French Open, and PSG fans heading there mingled with tennis fans heading to Roland Garros earlier in the day.
The night session match between fourth seeds Félix Auger-Aliassime and Brandon Nakashima on Court Philippe Chatrier was briefly suspended due to fireworks being set off at the Parc des Princes.
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Earlier in Chatrier, Frenchwoman Diane Parry was applauded after her come-from-behind victory over sixth-seeded American Amanda Anisimova. Parry won 6-3, 4-6, 7-6(3). Anisimova was runner-up at Wimbledon and the US Open last year.
some fans Singing PSG’s club anthem She celebrated her victory over Anisimova by holding up her PSG jersey.
Parry wore a PSG shirt at the post-match press conference, and fans flooded the streets near Parc des Princes and Roland Garros following the team’s victory. ___
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