Olivieri put an end to his incredible adventure at Roland Garros

Olivieri put an end to his incredible adventure at Roland Garros

The Argentine tennis player genaro olivieri he put an end to the best performance of his career by being eliminated this Saturday from the open of Roland Garros after having lost in the third round with the “top ten” from Denmark Holger Rune by 6-4, 6-1 and 6-3.

olivieriborn in Bragado and ranked 231 in the ATP world ranking, lost to Rune (6) in straight sets after two hours of play on the central court Philippe-Chatrier of the complex located in the Parisian neighborhood of Bois de Boulogne .

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The 24-year-old Argentine will never forget his performance in Paris, as he played his first tournament on the ATP circuit in a grand slams to which he agreed after having gone through the classification in which he won three games, and then surprised by overcoming two rounds.

olivieri He successively beat the Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (237) and the Italian Andrea Vavassori (148), until he ran into a higher-ranking player like Rune and consummated a logical elimination.

The Argentine started the game at full speed with a service break that allowed him to go ahead 2-0 to the surprise of the Parisian public, but the European, champion this year in Munich and finalist in two Masters 1000, in Monte Carlo and Rome, recovered quickly and began to impose his highest hierarchy to take a 5-2 lead with a series of five points in a row.

The Danish took the initial set, which was the most even of the match, and then he also won the next two with greater ease to settle in the round of 16, an instance in which the winner of the crossover that will later cheer on the Argentine will play. Francisco Cerúndolo (23) and American Taylor Fritz (8).

The other results of the day

In other results, the Norwegian Casper Ruud (4), Roland Garros finalist in 2022 (lost to the Spanish Rafael Nadal), beat the Chinese Zhizhen Zhang (71) 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 and 6 -4 to settle in the round of 16, while the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka (33) ended the great week of the Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild (172) and beat him 3-6, 7-6 (10-8), 2 -6, 6-4 and 6-0. In the women’s draw, the Spanish Sara Sorribes (132) beat the Kazakh Elena Rybakina (4) by no-show.

Source: Ambito

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