China News Agency, Paris, May 30 (Reporter Li Yang) The 2021 French Open Tennis Championship kicked off on the 30th local time.
Austrian star Tim was upset and stopped in the first round of men's singles, while Japanese star Naomi Osaka was fined for boycotting the press conference.
Tim played as the No. 4 seed in the French Open men's singles.
His opponent on the day was the 35-year-old Spanish veteran Andujar.
In the previous game between the two men, Tim won.
In the game of the day, Tim quickly entered the state and won the first two sets with a score of 6:4 and 7:5. Victory is in sight.
But Andujar persisted in the game when the score was behind, and repeatedly seized Tim's mistakes to launch an effective counterattack, and Tim's state continued to decline.
Andujar pulled back two sets with a score of 6:3 and 6:4, dragging the game into the final set.
In the final set of the contest, Andujar played well, although Tim tried to save the situation, but still unable to recover.
In the end, Tim lost the deciding set with a score of 4:6 and lost the entire game with a total score of 2:3, becoming the first time in his career that he stopped the first round of the French Open men's singles.
The whole game took 4 and a half hours.
Tim admitted after the game that he did not play well that day, saying that he could have played better.
French Open women's singles No. 2 seed Naomi Osaka was fined $15,000 by the French Open tournament organizing committee for boycotting the press conference on the 30th.
The French Open Organizing Committee requested Naomi Osaka to reconsider her boycott of the press conference and reminded her to fulfill the obligation of the contestants to contact the media.
The statement warned that repeated violations will be subject to more severe penalties, including higher fines and suspensions.
On the same day, Naomi Osaka defeated Romania with a score of 6:4 and 7:4.
She believes that journalists after participating in the game will have an impact on the players' mental health, saying that the media asking questions after players lose is equivalent to "kicking them when they fall."
Chinese women's singles player Wang Xiyu, who broke through from the qualifying round and entered the French Open, lost to American Collins 2:6, 6:4, and 4:6 on the 30th. Unfortunately, he stopped the first round of the match.
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