New York (AFP)
Qualified for the second round of the US Open, Fiona Ferro (74th World) has ensured Monday in a match a minimum of 100,000 dollars (nearly 90,000 euros) in earnings, three times more than the price hit for his first in Lausanne this summer.
"I won a tournament in July and I won less taxes, something like $ 35,000 by winning 5 games, here even losing in the first round I would have had $ 50,000," said the 22 years old player.
"It's true that it's crazy, but that's also why there's so much pressure on the courts, there's the media and everyone watching," she said. .
The winner of the US Open, for both men and women, will win $ 3.850 million (3.444 million euros).
Since becoming a professional in 2012, Ferro had never participated in the US Open and made her debut this year in Australia and Wimbledon where she was eliminated in the first round each time. Just like at Roland Garros where she had reached the second round in 2018.
At Flushing Meadows, she dominated Monday the Australian Daria Gavrilova (95) 6-3, 6-4.
"Sure I saw that I was 70th in the world without a grand slam and that's encouraging because it means I played well in other tournaments, but I really wanted to 'stop this spiral,' she assured.
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