The fairy tale has flown away.
Like his backhand on the 5th match point.
Revelation of the Roland-Garros tournament on the French side - with Léolia Jeanjean who is playing the 3rd round on Saturday against the Romanian Bégu - Diane Parry was eliminated, in the 3rd round, this Friday afternoon, by the experienced Sloane Stephens.
In two sets (6-2, 6-4) and 1h42 of play.
If the American is currently ranked 64th in the world, she had reached the Roland-Garros final in 2018 and was ranked 3rd in the WTA the same year.
This time therefore the opposition was too strong by the young Blue (19 years old).
No doubt caught up in the challenge, immense for her first 3rd round in a Grand Slam, Parry has never freed herself.
She never seemed to get into her game.
Or too late and too rarely like that long line forehand to save a first match point and that authoritative climb to the net to erase the second.
Episodic reactions which must increase a little more the frustration of the Frenchwoman.
She made an appointment with the future
The support of his entire clan in his box and that of the Central public who chanted his name, and the "Here it's Parry", will not change anything.
Nor the interruption of the long match of about ten minutes at the end of the second round to treat and evacuate a spectator who suffered from discomfort.
For a round and a half, the Frenchwoman was only the shadow of the powerful and precise player seen since the beginning of the week.
Never in the game like this failed smash at 4-1 in the second set which could have offered him a break point… and the hope of a turnaround.
While her one-handed backhand and serve had been so effective in previous rounds against Czech world No. 2 and defending champion Barbora Krejcikova and Colombian Camila Osorio, this time they rarely interfered. his opponent.
Despite the disappointment, the player who learned tennis at the Le Gallo stadium in Boulogne-Billancourt, not far from the alleys of Roland-Garros, and dreamed as a child of playing on this Central by passing in front of it on a scooter, made an appointment with the future.
Ranked 97th in the world before the tournament, she should jump up the rankings.
If his adventure on the clay courts of Porte d'Auteuil is now over, we should still hear about Parry in the coming years.
