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One of the longest matches in the history of the Roland Garros tennis tournament, which took place in Paris (France), was played at the prestigious Roland Garros tennis tournament.
Italian in the first round Lorenzo Giustino (ATP-157) after 6 hours 5 minutes of fighting 0: 6, 7: 6 (9: 7), 7: 6 (7: 3), 2: 6, 18:16 defeated the french Corentiną Moutet (ATP-81). These tennis players played against each other for the first time.
🇫🇷 ☹️ How cruel for Corentin Moutet! After 6:05 of play, the Frenchman bows to Giustino, 16-18 in the fifth set …
The second longest match in the history of Roland-Garros! 😱
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The fifth set of matches immediately became a tennis classic. The 34-game thriller lasted up to 3 hours. Moutet won the opponent’s entry in the 13th game, but lost two decisive points within minutes (30:30) and the result was equalized again (8: 8). In Game 16, Giustino was already above the victory point, but did not realize the “breaking point”.
In game 25, C. Moutet lost two break points, but in game 27 he made no mistake and took the lead at 14:13. In game 28, he lost his series, but in the next game he realized the “break point” again. In Game 30, C. Moutet neutralized three “break points”, equalized the score (40:40), but still failed to win the opponent’s series of innings, and L. Giustino miraculously saved again.
In game 33, the Frenchman had two more break points, but this time they didn’t realize it. When it looked like the match was going to last until midnight, L. Giustinas broke 40:15 in game 34 and realized “match point” on the second attempt.
This match became the eighth longest in tennis history and the second longest in Roland Garros history. The all-time record belongs to the 2010 For the Wimbledon match between Juan Isnerio Y Nicolo Mahut. It lasted 11 am 5 minutes, and J. Isner won the fifth set 70:68. Roland Garros record since 2004 belongs to the French Fabrice’ui Santoro Y Arnaud clementui. They played 33 minutes at 6 pm, and F. Santoro won the fifth set at 4:14 pm.
A Frenchman left Roland Garros on Monday Gaelis monfilsas (ATP-9), which 4: 6, 5: 7, 6: 3, 3: 6 landed on the representative of Kazakhstan Alexander Bublik (ATP-49). So far he is the only player in the top ten in men’s units to finish his show.
The total prize pool for Roland Garros is $ 38 million. euros.
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