Gauff click on the bubble

Gauff serves during the game against Sevastova in New York.Frank Franklin / AP

It happens to herself.

“Sometimes I forget my age [16].

Sometimes I forget that I am still learning.

In life and in tennis ”, says

, who is discovering the sport and the elite, also who he is.

On and off the slopes.

If she was recently delivering a forceful and emotional anti-racist speech in Delray Beach, the present time reflects a small setback (6-3, 5-7 and 6-4 against Anastasija Sevastova) that under normal circumstances should not attract the slightest attention Not so in her case because since she took flight a little over a year ago at Wimbledon she has managed to normalize the extraordinary.

Life forces Gauff to go very fast, a teenager who is already a sports reference in the United States when tennisically speaking, her teeth are still coming out.

In her first three shows for the greats, she signed two eighths (Wimbledon and Australia) and the third round in New York last year, so that her country was throwing her hands at the head when she saw her fall to Sevastova (32), who She is almost twice her age, cunning and accurate in the critical moments of a pulse that I know if it lasted to the third set was because the Latvian lacked sharpness in the resolution of the second.

Sevastova (45th in the WTA) is indigestible to American tennis, which is still stinging with the defeat of Serena Williams last January in the Federation Cup, the first she suffered in that competition (14-1).

She was also in front.

This time she took Gauff ahead, too fast when some key points required rest and who has a wide margin of progression in the offensive phase, because she dominates the defense based on her legs.

She ruined the first three match balls of her rival, but finally bowed and lowered her farewell to the court Louis Armstrong.

In the center,

dragged the good dynamics of the previous week in the Cincinnati tournament and got rid of Damir Dzumhur (6-1, 6-4 and 6-1), so he is still launched: full of triumphs (24 ) this season.

In Spanish key, Andalusian Alejandro Davidovich achieved the first victory of his career in the tournament, against Dennis Novak, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 1-6 and 6-0.

Meanwhile, the Asturian Pablo Carreño suffered to knock down Yasutaka Uchiyama (4-6, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3 and 6-3, in 3h 39m) and three representatives fell: Albert Ramos (6-2, 6 -1 and 6-1 with Stefanos Tsitsipas), Pablo Andújar (7-5, 6-3 and 6-1 for Borna Coric) and Paula Badosa (6-4 and 7-5 favorable to Varvara Gracheva).

The rest of the day saw the elimination of two seeds: Diego Schwartzman, in charge of Cameron Norrie (3-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 and 7-5), and Dusan Lajovic, felled by Egor Gerasimov (6-1, 4-6, 6-4 and 6-4).

The youngsters Alexander Zverev (7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-3 and 7-5 to Kevin Anderson) and Denis Shapovalov (6-4, 4-6, 6-3 and 6-2 to Sebastian Korda) progressed ), and in the women's draw the first seed advanced, Karolina Pliskova (6-4 and 6-0 to Anhelina Kalinina), Petra Kvitova (6-3 and 6-3 to Irina-Camelia Begu) and Angelique Kerber (double 6-4 to Ajla Tomljanovic).

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POLEMIC: 11 ISOLATED STILL IN THE TOURNAMENT

Last Saturday, the newspaper L'Èquipe uncovered that the French Benoit Paire had tested positive and that he had been isolated, like other colleagues who had somehow had contact with him.

Among them, Richard Gasquet, Adrian Mannarino or Kristina Mladenovic.

"I'm looking forward to what really happens in this false bubble," Paire transmitted through Instagram.

He, like those who may be affected, now follow a different protocol from that of the rest of the tennis players who stay at his hotel, but the case generates controversy in that the tournament organization has not eliminated them from the table and there are voices that demand their expulsion, abiding by the regulations established in advance.

There was already a stir three weeks ago, when the United States Federation (USTA) removed Argentine Guido Pella and Bolivian Hugo Dellien from Cincinnati, since their physical trainer had tested positive for covid-19.

Both missed the appointment prior to the US Open and had to be in quarantine for 14 days, and tonight they will hit the track having been able to complete only one training session.

Meanwhile, Alexander Zverev further confused the situation during a television talk with Boris Becker, a Eurosport commentator.

The tennis player said that Russian Daniil Medvedev, runner-up last year in New York and that he made his debut against Federico Delbonis this Tuesday, had also been in contact with Paire.

However, his coach, Guilles Cervera, flatly denied it to reporters present at Flushing Meadows.