The 28 -year -old Frenchwoman qualified on Sunday for her first quarter -final at the US Open by beating the American Alison Riske, while Corentin Moutet lost to the Norwegian Casper Ruud.
Le Monde with AFP
French Caroline Garcia, world 17th, qualified for her first quarter-final at the US Open on Sunday by defeating the American Alison Riske (29th) 6-4, 6-1.
At 28 years old, the French number one which had never exceeded the third round of the New York Major, thus equal its best result in a Grand Chelem tournament, having played the quarter-finals in Roland-Garros in 2017 .
She will try to do even better Tuesday September 6 against the American Coco Gauff (12th), finalist of the last Roland Garros, or the Chinese Shuai Zhang (36th).
Moutet frustrated French Corentin Moutet, during the US Open, September 4, 2022, in New York (United States). Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP
Disappointment for French Corentin Moutet (112nd World) which lost 6-1, 6-2, 6-7 (4/7), 6- 2 Facing the Norwegian Casper Ruud (7th), Sunday in the round of 16 of the US Open, stadium of a Grand Slam which he reached for the first time.
Very nervous and a little lost in the immensity of the Arthur Ashe, however not yet filled with his 23,800 daily spectators, the 23-year-old French managed next to his meeting during the first two sets, Embed a lot of direct faults.
Frustration quickly won him. She first manifested herself quite unusual, when he made a series of pumps, as if to punish himself – and perhaps re -motivating himself – after a point lost at the start of the second set. Less funny, he sent anger two bullets blowing into the stands, just before the loss of the round, logically scoped from a penalty point, after receiving a warning a little earlier for the same offense.
There was better in the third set. Led 4-2, he finally had a burst, rolling out and then pushing Ruud to the decisive game. A tie-break during which he found consistency, also taking advantage of the feverishness of his opponent, author of a double-faute on the French set ball.
Ruud then managed to regain control of the match by taking the service of Moutet to lead 3-1, not without immediately having to erase two bales of Débreak. Advantage that he knew firmly then keep.
The 23 -year -old Norwegian, who reaches for the first time the quarters at Flushing Meadows, will face the Italian Matteo Berrettini (14th), a winner of a big show against the Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (39th) .
