The match for the first round of the Las Leyendas women’s doubles tournament will take place at the Suzane Lenglen court, starting at 6:00 p.m. (11:00 p.m. in Paris).
Sabatini and Dulko have been preparing for a few days at the Jean Bouin clublocated about 200 meters from Roland Garros, as an annex to the second Grand Slam of the season.
That brick dust court is the one used by the Argentines to prepare, with a view to the Tournament of Legends that the French Open has, and that will see them together in action for the first time.
sabatini he arrived on Friday from Zürich, where he was already preparing, to meet Dulko in Paris, who arrived on Saturday morning from Buenos Aires.
“Gaby” turned 52 on May 16 and retired as a professional tennis player 26 seasons ago, in 1996; while Dulko, 37, debuted as a professional in 1999, when the best tennis player in Argentine history had been off the court for three years.
Sabatini won 27 titles in singles and was number 3 in the world in singles; She also added 14 trophies in doubles (including Wimbledon 1988, with the German Steffi Graf), plus three finals in pairs in Roland Garrosalso with the German player as her binomial.
sweetie, who retired in 2012, won 4 singles titles, and 17 in doubles, where she was number 1 in the world together with the Italian Flavia Pennetta; Her achievements include the 2010 Masters and the 2011 Australian Open.
Sabatini and Dulko They got together last January for a padel match.
A photo was left of that meeting, uploaded to social networks. And that image came to Roland Garros. From Paris, the concern came: wouldn’t you be interested in playing the Legends Trophy? The proposal came to sweetie, that he talked about it with Gaby during a dinner. And then… why not?
In this way, the return of both to a Grand Slam was conceived; at least for a few days, and for an exhibition contest that is usually common in each of the big four.
After sharing a couple of rehearsals in our country, Sabatini traveled to Europe, where they met again on Saturday, already in Paris with the first practice.
They were joined by another former player, Rodolfo Daruich, as hitting partner, as the assistant is known in the training rallies. For a while, the one who followed the rehearsal from the side was Sergio Giorgi, father of the Italian tennis player Camila Giorgi, and Malvinas veteran, who years after the war received a scholarship to study medicine in Rome, and there he met Claudia Fullone Camila’s mom.
In these first rehearsals, just after arriving in Paris, Gaby and Gisela sought to adapt to the surface and the balls that will be used during the contest, in addition to focusing on some shots.
Today, the contest was presented and for the first time with 16 players, divided into 8 doubles teams in two groups of 4, with the round robin system.
Between tomorrow and next Friday the three games in each zone will be played, and only the winning team of each group will advance to the final scheduled for next Saturday.
In addition to Dulko and Sabatini, other outstanding players from the past will also be presented, such as Iva Majoli (Croatia) and Mary Pierce (France); Flavia Pennetta and Francesca Schiavone (Italy); Tatiana Golovin and Nathalie Tauziat (France); Daniela Hantuchova (Slovakia) and Martina Navratilova (United States); Chanda Rubin (United States) and Sandrine Testud (France); Rennae Stubbs (Australia) and Magdalena Maleeva (Bulgaria), and Lindsay Davenport and Mary Joe Fernandez (United States), the latter two tomorrow’s rivals.
For its part, in the Roland Garros Men’s Legends tournament, the couples scored are: Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) and Goran Ivanisevic (Croatia); Henri Leconte and Michaël Llodra (France); Sébastien Grosjean and Cédric Pioline (France); Nicolas Escudé and Paul-Henri Mathieu (France); Arnaud Clement and Fabrice Santoro (France); Mansour Bahrami and Julien Benneteau (France); Guy Forget (France) and Tommy Haas (Germany), and Xavier Malisse (Belgium) and Mats Wilander (Sweden).
Source: Ambito
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