In full confidence, the 28-year-old Frenchwoman will face Tunisian Ons Jabeur on Thursday in the final of the Grand Chelem New York, a first for Garcia in her career, in simple.
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The gala match did not keep her promises, but Caroline Garcia as guilty. Tuesday, September 6, opposed to the young American “Coco” Gauff in the quarterfinals of the US Open, the Frenchman voluntarily prevented the Arthur-Ashe stadium, the largest tennis court in the world, to ignite: the evening New York turned short for the 23,000 spectators who came to encourage the 18-year-old local prodigy after the Lyonnaise recital. The 17th world player has strolled her youngest, seeded number 12, defeated 6-3, 6-4 after only an hour and a half-seven play.
A crossing of the field, apartments set off mimicking the plane, then a flight to its clan. The choreography of Caroline Garcia, who earned her the nickname “Flying Caro”, is now well established. On her face, a large smile, which has not left her since the beginning of summer. Because, for a few months, the 28 -year -old woman seems to have found her cruise altitude. Titled three times on three different areas – Bad Hombourg on lawn in June, Warsaw on clay in July and Cincinnati on hard in August -, right -handed is not descended from its cloud in New York, where it is qualified for the First semi-final of Grand Chelem in simple career.
A quarter -final that the Lyonnaise is not about to forget. “It was a very intense match, the atmosphere was very American with a lot of energy on the court. The path is really clear now, and I try to follow it,” said Garcia, who is not that the third French player to reach the last square at Flushing Meadows in the Open era (since 1968), after Amélie Mauresmo (2002 and 2006) and Mary Pierce (2005). “She likes to play this kind of match, that’s what she wanted to come back to this level,” abounds Julien Benneteau, her captain of Fed Cup (now Billie Jean King).
Four years after reaching the world’s number 4 place, Caroline Garcia returns with a crash to the front of the stage. Because her New York epic echoes his royal tour in China, at the end of 2017. That year, after her first quarter-final in the Grand Slam in Roland-Garros, she won the tournaments of Wuhan and Beijing, The equivalent of a Masters 1000 in men (the category just below the Great Chelems). Garcia is released. But the soufflé falls as quickly as it is mounted.
crossing the desert
expectations that are too heavy to bear for the one that the British Andy Murray announced, in 2011, as a future world number 1. “It was difficult because people expected a lot from me. I was around 150
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