Roland Garros 2025: A Grand Slam of Nightmares and Batacacies

Roland Garros 2025 is an atypical Grand Slam for the best players in the world. Without the threshold of the first week have passed, There are already 15 sown eliminated in the ATP section In what, without a doubt, is the greatest bleeding of this kind of players at the male level of the last three years. Who stayed on the road and how did they do it? Well, that will be a question that we will develop along the way.

The first two to fall were Brandon Nakashima (No. 32) and Tomas Machac (No. 20). The first, to pass very irregular on the surface both in the year and in his career (record of 16-18), lost to Mariano Navone, a tennis player accustomed to brick dust and who has even made two finals. With which, we could deduce that 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-1 and 6-2 was a fair result. While, on the Czech side, luck did not play in favor: he had to retire in the middle of the second set against Quentin Halys due to physical problems.

But the second day of action would have prepared surprises. First of all, Taylor Fritz (N ° 4) lost against Daniel Altmaier. While the German is not a dust specialist, the surface is given more than good. In fact, its general registration is 28V and 41D but with a deficit in 2025: only three wins and six falls. But the American who is also not a specialist, if he came with more credentials to overcome the first round, although fundamentally for his position than for his history in the clay. However, there was Batacazo: 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 and 6-1.

And how if it were not enough, the real batacazo was given by the young Canadian Gabriel Diallo23 years. With only five victories on the surface, it was loaded in sets to nothing more or nothing less than Francisco Cerúando it: 7-5, 6-3 and 6-4. The surprise is capital because the Argentine came with great results in dust: a final (Buenos Aires) and three semifinals (Santiago, Munich and Madrid) in addition to a great role in Monte-Carlo and Rome against Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, respectively.

The other two defeats that generated confusion were those of CASPER RUUD AND STEFANOS TSITSIPASboth finalists in Roland Garros. The first, in addition, having been champion in the Masters 1000 in Madrid in what is his most important title. The Norwegian lost to Nuno Borges leaving a very bad image in the last two sets, where he only won one Game And the pains in one of their knees were present. On the contrary, Greek does not enjoy its best sports moment but is still a brick powder specialist. However, Matteo Gigante (23 -year -old Italian, today in position No. 167) beat him in the second round in four sets. Undoubtedly, a poor image for the Athenian who does not stop going down in the world ranking and touches the fall of the top 30.

The other weight names that stayed on the road are: Alex de Miñaur (No. 9, lost to Alexander Bublik who has publicly complained repeatedly of clay), Daniil Medvedev (No. 11, against Cameron Norrie), Dimitrov Grigor (No. 16, retired), Jakub Mensik (No. 19, in front of the surprise Henrique Rocha), Ugo Humbert (No. 22, also retired), Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (No. 26, vs. Jiri Leheckka), Félix Auger-Aliassime (No. 29, against Matteo Arnaldi), HUBERT HURKACZ (No. 30, in front of Joao Fonseca), Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (No. 37, before Damir Dzumhur), Alex Michelsen (No. 32, vs. Juan Manuel Cerú) and Denis Shapovalov (No. 31, Vs. Filip Misolic).

The last time a Roland Garros had suffered such bleeding players had been in 2021where they had lost 17 preclassified players before the third round. In that lot, for example, were Dominic Thiem, Andrey Rublev or David Goffin. But this, in turn, opens another panorama in Paris. A panorama that, of course, celebrates the candidates.

Both the paintings of Jannik Sinner as of Carlos Alcaraznumber one and two respectively, they begin to open and show smaller ranking players on the path of the two favorites. The first, semifinalist in 2025 and the second, last champion, will try to overcome what they have left and give to tennis the final that the world is waiting. Of course, as long as they do not surprise them in advance.

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