It stops at round of 16 the race of Andrea Vavassoripaired with the Russian Liudmila Samsonovain the tournament of mixed doubles of the Roland Garros 2024 tennis: the duo turns out to be too strong number 7 in the seeding, made up of the Taiwanese Su-Wei Hsieh and the Polish Jan Zielinskiwhich impose themselves by 6-0 6-3 in just 54 minutes of play and in the quarterfinals they will face them Australians Ellen Perez and Matthew Ebden, credited with the first seeding.
In the first set the start is immediately uphill for Vavassori and Samsonova, who lose serve at 15 and so in an amen Hsieh and Zielinski take a comfortable 3-0 lead. In the fourth game the Italian and the Russian end up trailing again 15-40, taking the game to the decisive point, but still giving up the serve. The Taiwanese and the Pole do not concede anything to their opponents, in fact in the sixth game they go again to 15-40 in response and on the second set point they close at 6-0 in just 21 minutes of play.
In the second game Vavassori and Samsonova reach 30-40 in response in the opening game, but fail to make the breakthrough, which instead comes in favor of Hsieh and Zielinski in the second game. The blue and the Russian, with their backs against the wall, finally break free and find the immediate counterbreak at fifteen, but in the following game they give up serve again to zero. The Taiwanese and the Pole recover from 15-30 and this time confirm the break, taking a comfortable 4-1, and then make sure to serve for the match, still holding the serve for 5-2. A first match point in response, on the decisive point of the eighth game, is not exploited, but in the ninth game Hsieh and Zielinski keep the serve at fifteen and land in the quarterfinals at 6-3 in 33 minutes.
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The statistics they obviously reward Hsieh and Zielinski, who win 54 points against 33 of Vavassori and Samsonova. Exactly opposite between the two couples balance winners-free, with 17-12 for Taiwanese and Polish e 12-17 for the blue and the Russian. There couple number 7 on the scoreboard exploits 5 of the 10 break points had available, while he cancels two of the three chances granted to opponents.
