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Two defeats, not two failures, for the Italians in the endless cold Parisian night. Martina Trevisan and Jannik Sinner entered the field after the umpteenth marathon of the tournament, which in 5 hours and 8 minutes ended with the surprise (but not too much) victory of Diego Schwartzman over the finalist of the last two editions, and champion. of the US Open in charge of Dominic Thiem, stopped in the quarterfinals of Roland Garros, clearly defeated respectively by Iga Swiatek (6-3 6-1) and Rafa Nadal (7-6 6-4 6-1), but they can be proud of your tournament.
Martina came from the playoffs. She entered the tournament from number 189 and played 8 games and from next Monday she will be at number 83 in the world. She conquered Paris with her smart and spectacular tennis and sweeping smile, now she is ready to begin a new stage of her second career, which began in 2014 after a four-year hiatus.
Iga, the nineteen-year-old Polish woman who loves jazz and has been with a mental coach since she was 17, hits hard, thinks fast and pulls hard, after a somewhat torpid start she began to wind backwards, especially throughout the line, and Martina was He had to give up, perhaps also because of the accumulated fatigue in the two weeks of the game. But she realized that there is still a lot of quality tennis in her future. This is great news for our women’s tennis that is going through a bad time.
For Swiatek, n. 54 Wta, this is the first Slam semifinal of her career, and she will play it against the umpteenth surprise of this anomalous tournament, the Argentine of Ukrainian origin Nadia Podoroska, daughter of a watchmaker, who follows a Zen discipline developed by Pedro Merani, the coach of the Qatari bowling team (yes). Podoroska, 23, # 131 WTA, has also progressed from qualifying and is the third-ranked to go this far in a slam after Alexandra Stevenson, the daughter of Doctor J in 1999 at Wimbledon, and Christine Dory at the Australian Open in 1978.
Sinner and Nadal entered the field through the center for the last game of an endless day and many times wet from the rain, with a temperature from almost winter (less than 10 °) until 10:30 at night. The game ended after one in the morning. Jannik started very well, without fear, with great personality, and played a fabulous first set, reaching the set at 6-5 after hitting a Nadal in obvious distress under the Italian’s groundstrokes. There, however, he felt tension for the first time, returned his serve and succumbed to the tie-break.
Also in the second set Jannik continued to play great tennis, taking the 3-1 lead, but Nadal little by little found his best tennis, especially the left-hander on the line with which he tormented Sinner, and in the third set he extended . . On Thursday against Schwartzman, who beat him two weeks ago in Rome, he will play his 38th Grand Slam semi-final and seek revenge. For the sixth time that the world number 2 reaches the semifinals without having lost a set, the goal is Roland Garros 13 – no one has won a single tournament so many times – and the 20 Grand Slam that would appear to Roger Federer.
For Jannik a lesson that he will surely know how to take advantage of, and the awareness that there is a wide margin for improvement – service, rights, management of key points … – but that the level to compete with the best, on all surfaces, is already there.
Results
Men, quarterfinals: Schwartzman-Thiem 7-6 5-7 6-7 7-6 6-2, Nadal-Sinner 7-6 6-4 6-1.
Women, round of 16: Collins-Jabeur 6-4 4-6 6-4; quarters: Podoroska-Svitolina 6-2 6-4, Swiatek-Trevisan 6-3 6-1.
Today’s program (from 12, tv on Eurosport)
Kvitova-Siegemund, Collins-Kenin, Rublev-Tsitsipas, Djokovic-Carreno-Busta
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