No exploit in the first round of the US Open for our national Richard Gasquet, beaten in three sets by one of the big favorites of the tournament, Daniil Medvedev (6-4, 6-3, 6-1).
The French did not last two hours against the Russian, serious and applied to overcome his elder.
Arthur Rinderknech will have spent a little more time on court number 6 in New York, but the game was worth the candle: the Frenchman offered his first Grand Slam victory by overthrowing Kecmanovic (63rd) 6-7 ( 10/12), 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4.
Falling to the ground, taken by both emotion and great fatigue, he then savored the moment, offering himself a lap of honor on court 6, where he demonstrated an incessant desire to go to court. net with 81 climbs.
His next opponent will be the young Spanish nugget, Carlos Alcaraz, 18.
It's difficult for Caro Garcia
As for Caroline Garcia, 62nd in the world, she defeated the Briton Harriet Dart 6-7 (6/8), 6-4, 6-2, after qualifying, and will be opposed in the next round to the Kazakhe Elena Rybakina (20th world).
Faced with the 151st world that she had already struggled to defeat in three sets, during their first confrontation this year in Birmingham, the Frenchwoman was able to re-mobilize after the loss of the first round by resuming the game on her own in the next two.
Finally, the last of the only three French people to have reached the second round on Monday, Mannarino (44th in the world) emerged victorious in the only match ensuring a tricolor to access the next round, since he beat 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 Pierre-Hugues Herbert (104th).
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