The phrase reminiscent of Roland Garros (the aviator) in the center of Roland Garros (the home of French tennis) is written in English, and takes up the entire length of the Chatrier. “Victory belongs to the most tenacius”. Victory belongs to the most tenacious. The story of the young Eugene Adrien Roland Georges Garros is curious, a hero perhaps, and an aviation ace without the necessary certifications, having never shot down the five opposing planes (but only three) which guarantee registration among the legendary pilots. Hit once in 1915, he saved himself by gliding until he landed behind the German lines, where he was obviously arrested and his plane combed through by Fokker and his team of engineers, who drew inspiration from those observations for the construction of new, deadly aircraft. , in which the machine gun was synchronized with the drive shaft, and prevented the car from breaking down by shooting at its own propeller. He escaped in 1918, the year in which he was shot down for the second time, to be remembered today by a tennis facility, he who had never been a tennis player.
The phrase, in English, was also curious, as it certainly wasn’t his language. However, it is useful to change the characteristics of the challenge for once, this season which despite the hip problem he maintains under the name of Jannik Sinnerwinner of three tournaments (a slam, a “1000” and a “500”) and number two in the rankings with many possibilities of becoming number one in a few days. Should he lose in the first round, Djokovic would still be forced to reach the semi-final to prevent him…
Who owns Roland Garros?
It will not be Nadal’s Roland Garros, therefore it will not be the traditional Slam, nor the fifteenth seal for the thirty-eight year-old Spanish champion. It won’t be a Roland Garros decided by the ranking, because the number one seriously risks becoming “ex” and his latest performances are in line with the darkest expectations, including tremor in his right hand (“Tiredness and stress”, he says) which Worth a visit to the doctor. Just list the last ones who beat him: Nardi, Ruud, Tabilo and Machac… It won’t even be the Slam of the fittest because there isn’t one who is one hundred percent. Not Sinner (in good recovery, though), either Alcarazalso returning from storage in the workshop, but not even Medvedev, not to mention Rafa or Nole. Higher than the others they appear Zverev And Ruud (who won yesterday in Geneva), perhaps Tsitsipas, but they are not really names that evoke unbeaten plans. The German won in Rome, and fate chose him as Nadal’s first opponent. Everyone says it’s going to be a one-sided match, and it’s likely that it will turn out that way, but I want to see them in action first. Zverev is capable of being scared for much less, and Nadal has a better chance of channeling his remaining energy in the first match, rather than in the subsequent ones. It’s a Roland Garros without favourites. Or with many favorites, which is the same…
A Slam intended precisely for “the most tenacious”, for those ready “to give up”, as they say around the Rome Internationals. I, we, care about Sinner, obviously. «I don’t think about the hip. I want to play, but my team and I can’t work miracles. I think I can play well. I’ll try…”, commented on this long period of uncertainty, resolved in the Juventus way (he who is from Milan) at the JMedical in Turin. Your sparring yesterday, Marton FucsovicsHungarian, said he was amazed by Capo Carota’s talents. «He plays so well that there are no words to express it. I didn’t expect it. For me the tournament wins.” Debut tomorrow, against Christopher Eubanks, Chris 201 cm, strange guy, someone who seems to have been taken from the street basketball courts and placed on a tennis court, complete with a backwards cap. He is 28 years old, from Atlanta, and became a tennis player by chance, when the parents of Donald Young, who was number 38 in 2012, moved from Chicago to Georgia and set up a tennis center near the Eubanks house. . Chris did nothing but move there and become friends with Donald, the first to advise him and see a future tennis player in him. The result is an old-fashioned serve and volley player, relentless in serving but one of those who throws everything a bit at random from the baseline. They met in New York two years ago, Sinner resolved the dispute easily, but risked something in the tie break of the second set.
Today is Alcaraz’s day, opposite to Gei-Gei Wolf, the boy with seventies hair, “one of the Mods” style, who was then Ricky Shayne, the rough singer. It’s the day of Wawrinka and Murray, who by exchanging their good parts could recompose a tennis Frankenstein but with value, while with the others a robot tennis player could emerge. Match still worth seeing, as a memory of times gone by. It is also Sonego’s day against Humbert, who is the darling of the French and is ahead (3-2) in head-to-head matches, even if the only match played at Roland Garros, a year ago, saw the clear success of the Turin native . Sonny needs to regain confidence, and a Frenchman in Paris is worth a restart. Or not?
