At 36 and as world number 130, he beats the Australian in three sets and hits the third round of Roland Garros for the tenth time in his career
– Milan
There’s a 36-year-old boy who is enchanting the Roland Garros crowd, and it’s not Novak Djokovic. His almost twin Fabio Fognini, number 130 in the world, in his sixteenth participation on French soil qualified for the third round of the second slam of the season, with a magnificent performance against the Australian Jason Kubler, number 69, beaten in three sets 6 -4 7-6 (5) 6-2.
the management of fognini
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In the first round, the Ligurian had eliminated the Canadian Auger-Aliassime, No. 10 in the rankings and seeding, in three sets, and now he has done it again in a big way. Up until 4-0 in the second set, however, Fognini had been a truly deluxe one, with a succession of hits with an ancient flavour. Then a slight decline, up to being reassembled and being forced into the tie break, but in the third then the class of the Arma di Taggia tennis player returned and therefore the qualification to the third round, reached at Roland Garros for the tenth time in his career ( best result the quarterfinals of 2011), where he will face one between Ofner and Korda.
next opponent sewers
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Neither of them is impossible, for a fourth round that would be almost sensational, but not too much: already in Rome, where he had succumbed to the finalist Rune, Fabio had really appeared in excellent, excellent form. Three more Azzurri on the field today: Sonego against Hubert, Musetti against Shevchenko and Arnaldi against Denis Shapovalov.
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