Sunday evening, Roland-Garros put away the first week of competition which brought its autumn surprises, allowed the tournament to slip through the drops and revealed a promising French player.
That of a left-handed velvet hand, Hugo Gaston (20 years old, 1.73 m).
239th in the world, the Toulousain is expected to be 157th in the next world ranking after eliminating Stan Wawrinka (seeded No. 16) and swaying Dominic Thiem (No. 3) in the round of 16.
Hugo Gaston left the Philippe-Chatrier court accompanied by the cheers of a thousand spectators (3.2 million viewers on France 2) and the thumbs up of Dominic Thiem, winner in extremis in five sets.
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The Austrian, accustomed to Roland-Garros (semi-finalist in 2016 and 2017, finalist in 2018 and 2019), summed up after a match that offered a variety of forgotten shots (55 depreciations attempted):
“He played a fabulous match .
It's been a very long time since I've seen someone play their amortization so well.
I've had
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