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"Rafa prefers the ball to jump more"
"Aaaaaah!", and the shout of celebration of the Italian
Martina Trevisan
was heard throughout Paris.
At 28 years old, after 400 matches played in her career and from number 59 in the WTA ranking, she qualified this Tuesday at Roland Garros for her first Grand Slam semifinals.
What a moment, yours.
In less than a year she has gone from the Challenger tournaments to the Philippe Chatrier spotlight.
A unique story of those that feed the love for dep... wait, wait, wait.
Actually, if you analyze the female picture, Trevisan is not an exception at all, she is the norm.
Her feat is just one more.
Just check your path to glory and to glory.
Her rival in the quarterfinals was
Leylah Fernandez
, seventeenth in the world, and she had previously faced two opponents outside the top 100.
American
Coco Gauff
, eighteenth in the WTA ranking, awaits her in these semifinals, who also beat her compatriot
Sloane Stephens
, number 64, on Tuesday. And although number 1,
Iga Swiatek
, continues on the other side of the table , Trevisan can still find herself in the final with contenders like the Russians
Daria Kasatkina
and
Veronika Kudermetova
, 20 and 29 on the list respectively.
Seen what has been seen, the question is clear: Where are the best tennis players?
The answer is also clear: eliminated.
For the first time in the history of the Grand Slam, only one of the first 10 of the WTA ranking reached the round of 16, Swiatek herself;
the rest fell before.
In the first round, four, like
Garbiñe Muguruza
.
Second, three.
And in third, two, including
Paula Badosa
, injured.
Other former number ones such as
Naomi Osaka, Karolina Pliskova, Simona Halep, Angelique Kerber
or
Victoria Azarenka
did not advance either to leave an outcome of the tournament full of fascinating feats, such as that of Trevisan, and at the same time to present an outcome of the tournament full of unknown .
With
Serena Williams
out due to injury -and because she is already 40 years old- and
Ashleigh Barty
retired, the women's circuit is a carousel of ups and downs in the form of tennis players who, instead of slowing down, are accelerating more and more.
The public has a hard time knowing the stars and their inconsistency makes it impossible to follow them week after week.
Without going any further, Swiatek, the fittest tennis player, who has accumulated 31 consecutive victories, has never stepped into the quarterfinals of Wimbledon or the US Open, where this year she is eagerly awaiting her.
The confirmation of his reign, at 21 years old, would be the beginning of the solution for the WTA, although more is needed.
Young people like Paula Badosa herself and especially the teenage generation made up of Coco Gauff, Leylah Fernández,
Emma Raducanu
,
Amanda Anisimova
or
Clara Tauson
must bring greater stability to the circuit, more so in the big tournaments.
Upsets like Trevisan's would be addictive if they weren't so common and disappeared between losses like that right after that high point.
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