“Gaby” Sabatini and Dulko shined in the debut of the Roland Garros legends tournament

“Gaby” Sabatini and Dulko shined in the debut of the Roland Garros legends tournament

image.png

The tennis player emerged from River Plate and formed by Daniel “Palito” Fidalgo Return to Roland Garros after 27 years, when in the 1995 edition she climbed to the quarterfinals and lost to the German graph by 6-1 and 6-0, at that time he occupied locker number eight of the WTA.

sabatini starred in a brilliant career in which he won 27 titles in singles, the most important being US Open 1990, he also added 14 trophies in doubles, including Wimbledon in 1988, in partnership with the German graph.

“The important thing is that everything worked very well, we made good points and we were able to have fun. The smash went well, the serve was not my strong point during my career but it was not bad”he added sabatiniwhile a group of Argentines waited impatiently for her to sign autographs and take selfies, something that did not exist in her time as a tennis player, when she retired 26 years ago.

dulcowho debuted as a professional in 1999, when the best tennis player in Argentine history had been retired for three years, left tennis in 2012 with a career that included four singles titles and 17 doubles, where she was number one in the world along with the italian Flavia Pennettawith high points like the Masters 2010 and the Australian Open from 2011.

“Playing alongside Gaby is a dream for me, it was a beautiful feeling, this is all new for us, coming back to Paris was incredible”expressed dulcowho also commented that she remains active and trained hard for the tournament of legends which is played in the second week of Grand Slam French.

The competition in the women’s draw has 16 players divided into eight doubles teams in two groups of four each and with a round robin system.

In other words, each couple will play three games in each zone until Friday and only the winning team of the group will advance to the final scheduled for next Saturday.

In the Group Ain addition to sabatini Y dulcoand of their defeated Davenport Y Mary Jo Fernandezthere are the French Tatiana Golovin Y Nathalie Tauziatand another couple made up of Croatian VAT Majoli and the local Mary Pierce.

image.png

In the B Group are the italians Flavia Pennetta Y francesca schiavone; the slovak Daniela Hantuchova next to the American Martina Navratilova; the american Chanda Rubin in a pair with the French Sandrine Testud and the Australian Rennae Stubbs next to the bulgarian Magdalena Maleeva.

In the male team there are also outstanding figures from the past, the most prominent being the Swedish Mats Wilander57 years old and former number one in the world, with a collection of seven Grand Slams in his career: Roland Garros (3), Australia (3) and US Open (1).

The Men’s Legends tournament is played in the same format and the two groups are as follows:

Group A: Xavier Malisse (Belgium) and Mats Wilander (Sweden); Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) and Goran Ivanisevic (Croatia); Sebastien Grosjean (France) and Cédric Pioline (France) and Mansour Bahrami (Iran) and Julien Benneteau (France).

Group B: Guy Forget (France) and Tommy Haas (Germany); Nicolás Escudé (France) and Paul Henri Mathieu (France); Henri Leconte (France) and Michael Llodrá (France) and Arnaud Clement and Fabrice Santoro (France).

Source: Ambito

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Latest Posts