With … a walk, he qualified for the “16” of Roland Garros Holger Rooney and will find him opposite Stefanos Tsitsipas following the event.
The 19-year-old Dane (No40) got a comfortable victory against him Hugo Gaston with 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 in less than two hours.
In fact, the game started wrong for Rooney, after his French opponent won the first set, but he reacted by taking the next five and made it 5-1. Gaston made another break for 5-2, but Rooney made the 1-0 set 6-3.
Beyond that, the Frenchman’s resistance fell, with Rooney leading 3-1 and stepping on the accelerator for the 2-0 set with 6-3.
In the first game of the third set, Gaston had a triple break point, but Rooney stopped him, continued with a break and made it 3-0 and then 5-1. The Frenchman found a new break for 5-2 and kept his serve for 5-3,
Tsitsipas and Rooney have not met again in some event. The Dane had won the Roland Garros Juniors in 2019, while this year he won his first ATP title in Munich.
In detail, the pairs of “16”
Djokovic-Schwartzman
Ozer-Aliasim-Nadal
Zverev-Mirales
Katsanov-Alkaraz
Rud-Khurkaz
Roon-Tsitsipas
Rublev-Sinner
Cilic-Medvedev
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