Sensation in Paris, another Roland Garros favorite turned out

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The Italian tennis player Lorenzo Sonego secured a place in the fourth round of "Roland Garros", after defeating the seventh seed of the Grand Slam tournament Andrei Rublev with 3:2 in sets (5:7, 0:6, 6:3, 7:6, 6:3).

We saw an incredible match in Paris, and there was no hint that the Russian would end the competition already in the third round. Rublyov had a 2:0 lead in sets, but even that was not enough for him to advance to the next stage.

Sonego gradually returned to the match, won the third set, then in the tie-break of the fourth he was again better than Rublyov. With a break in the eighth game of the fifth set, he managed to get one step closer to a big victory, which he confirmed in the next game and achieved one of the biggest victories of his career.

The Italian will play against another Russian to qualify for the quarterfinals Karen Khachanov (11 seed) who with 6:4, 6:1, 3:6 and 7:6 (5) eliminated Thanassi Kokkinakis from Australia.

A surprise also happened in the women's competition, the third seed Jessica Pegula from the USA lost 2:0 (6:1, 6:3) in the Belgian Elise Mertens.

Mertens will play against in the round of XNUMX Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova who defeated Anastasia Potapova 2:1 (4:6, 6:3, 6:0) in the Russian match.

Two more matches were played, Daria Kasatkina (ninth seed, Russia) convincingly beat the American Peyton Stearns with 6:0 and 6:1, while the second seed of the tournament, the Belarusian Arina Sabalenka twice with 6:2 she triumphed over the Russian Kamila Rahimova.

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