US Open: perfect evening for Alizé Cornet, who sets a record and eliminates title holder

La Française became, on Tuesday, the first player to play sixty-three Grand Chelem tournaments in a row. She eliminates the Briton Emma Raducanu as a bonus, winner of the New York tournament in 2021.

Le Monde with AFP

She is on a cloud. The French Tennis player Alizé Cornet has doubly created the sensation, Tuesday August 30 in New York, by playing the 1 ^er tower of the US Open. Not only did the 32 -year -old Niçoise become, with her first racket stroke of the match, the player having played the greatest number of tournaments in a row of the Grand Slam (63), but she took the opportunity to offer herself, in Only two sets, the scalp of Emma Raducanu, 11 e world player and title holder (6-3, 6-3).

For his first confrontation with the British, Alizé Cornet (40 e ) overcome his chronic clumsiness in the service (9 double faults), by dominating exchanges thanks to his aggressiveness (22 winning shots against 15) and to the direct errors of his opponent (30 against 22).

.@Alizecornet is Victorious in Armstrong!
She Defeats Raducanu, 6-3, 6-3 to Advance to Round 2. https://t.co/rhad0zcbxv

– usopen (@us open tennis)

” All my heart “

“I put all my heart there, the atmosphere [of the court Louis-Armstrong] was great and I am very happy to have won,” commented the Frenchwoman. “I am more mature and I manage to better manage my emotions,” she said to explain the good results she posted this year in the adults.

In Australia, at the very beginning of the year, she has reached the Grand Slam quarter -finals for the first time in her career. She was then beaten at 3 e Tour à Roland-Garros and in the round of 16 in Wimbledon, where she had dismissed the world number one, Iga Swiatek, in the third round, thus putting an end to a Series of 37 consecutive victories of the Polish.

Alizé Cornet also entered the top 5 of the best French players in August, with more than 500 victories during his career. She will face the Czech Katerina Siniakova in the next round (83 e ) to get a 504 e Victory in a tournament. And stay on your cloud.