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With the sensational five-set victory after a 0: 2 deficit and defending a match ball over Jeremy Chardy, young Jurij Rodionov made some of the headlines on day one of the French Open.
After a long treatment after his 4:36 hour game, he reports physical deficits, which he should have under control by Wednesday. Now surprisingly he faces the Slovak Norbert Gombos, who beat Croatian seeded Borna Coric.
It also paralleled the US Open final when Dominic Thiem managed to turn a 2-0 set against Alexander Zverev in victory.
“I have to say, when I was 2-0 down, I didn’t think about Dominic or that I could do the same. But I’m still speechless. Now I let myself knead for an hour and a half on the physio and on myself. I still can’t drive. what happened in the last six hours, “says the happy native of Nuremberg, who has been Austrian since 2015 and has Belarusian parents.
“When I played match point, I no longer knew how to play tennis”
At first he just wanted to have fun. “And after four and a half hours, I suddenly win the game 10: 8. I am completely exhausted, but I am very happy with the victory,” said Lower Austria, who is 21 years old since 16 May, delighted.
He describes the “tiebreaker or, generally, the final phase in the third set” as the key moment. Chardy had already broken twice before. “After that, I took it easy on the tiebreaker and said to myself, ‘You have nothing to lose, it would be nice if you could bother him one more sentence.
After that, he played better, he gained more self-confidence and “Chardy gave in a bit. That was the key point.”
He needed a total of seven match points and a mental display of strength on the decision set. “I was wondering if he was in the mood to comfort me. Everything was great until match point and at match point I don’t know how to play tennis anymore. I even messed up a forehand break at the net, but luckily it all ends well.” next time you will be better prepared for moments like this.
Training with Wawrinka as a reward
It is now Wednesday against the Slovak Norbert Gambos instead of Borna Coric, the number 24 of the tournament. “I have nothing to lose, not even in the first round. Yes, I saw the result that Gombos won against Coric, a surprise. I don’t know Gombos,” says Rodionov.
First, he is looking forward to a training session with Swiss star Stan Wawrinka scheduled for Tuesday, and on Wednesday he wants to get his sick adductors back under control.
“It’s nothing bad, it’s just a minor stiffening. The biggest exhaustion is definitely mental because I’m not used to being on the field for four and a half hours, especially in these conditions. But I’m done, that’s it.” The most important. I left everything I had in the field. “
Tour coach Javier Frana’s protégé under Wolfgang Thiem has already secured a gross prize of € 84,000. And the mark of the first tour-level victory. He had previously lost twice in Kitzbühel (2018, 2019) and ‘s-Hertogenbosch (2019).
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