Caroline Garcia at Roland-Garros, September 29, 2020. -
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Poster of the day
Roland shouldn't be late this Friday.
From 11am, it will start strong with the match between Dominic Thiem and Casper Ruud on the Central.
This is THE game not to be missed.
Thiem, finalist last year and recent winner of the US Open, is no longer to present.
In front of him, the young one who goes up.
The Norwegian, 21 years old and already 25th player in the world, has just reached the semi-finals in Rome and then Hamburg.
It plays strong and without complex.
Warning the eyes.
The favorites of the day
Apart from Thiem which we have just spoken of, the other favorite on the program this Friday is none other than the owner of the place.
Rafael Nadal is scheduled for match 4 on the Philippe-Chatrier, after the victory of Caro Garcia.
His opponent, Stefano Travaglia, has just released Nishikori but we are not too worried about the Spaniard.
In women, a great opposition awaits the seed 1 Simona Halep, against Amanda Anisimova.
The French of the day
Obviously, by dint of telling you about the elimination of a Frenchman at 3 p.m. then that of a Frenchwoman at 16, he ends up not having much left.
So measure your chance to have two this Friday: Hugo Gaston, who faces the monster Stan Wawrinka in match 2 on Lenglen and Caroline Garcia, opposed to Elise Mertens in the wake of the Central.
Well, I might as well tell you that our Blues are not favorites.
But if we could at least vibrate a little, it wouldn't be refusal.
🇫🇷 1 guy, 1 girl!
Tomorrow at #RolandGarros ⤵️ @ HugoGaston7 in 2nd rotation on Suzanne-Lenglen court @ CaroGarcia in 3rd match on Philippe-Chatrier court
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- FFT (@FFTennis) October 1, 2020
Today's weather
We do not change a winning early fall.
It will obviously be yucky this Friday at Roland, between rain, wind and cold.
It could even be that in the afternoon, we have to cover for a while elsewhere than on the Central, now protected by a roof.
In short, if you are among the 1,000 lucky people to go to Porte d'Auteuil, we do not forget the essential: k-way and umbrella.
The sentence of the day
When Shapovalov loses, Shapovalov is not happy.
The Canadian, released in the second round Thursday after a fight of more than five hours, knocked the organizers of Roland at a press conference: “I think they are not doing a good job.
There is not really a bubble, especially in the second hotel ”, he began by saying, before talking about the programming of the matches which leaves something to be desired.
His conclusion from all this: “The organization is awful.
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The daring bet of the day
Stan Wawrinka defeats Hugo Gaston.
Is that daring?
!
No not really, ok, but in the way, yes.
Because we can imagine our Toulousain pushing the former winner of Roland to the end of his life in the 5th set, after five hours of matches and an epic battle ending in the Parisian blizzard at the time of Claire Chazal (maybe this is no longer she who presents, we do not know, we only watch sports on TV).
And if you want another one, we bet on Cecchinato's feat against Zverev.
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