Great feat in the first round at the French Open tennis at Fabio Fognini's Roland Garros. The Italian, no longer a boy, after reaching the third round at the Italian Open confirms to be healthy by overcoming in just three sets for 6-4 6-4 6-3 the Canadian number 10 of the world Felix Auger-Aliassime. "I'm happy for the victory you could see that today Felix was not well and I wish him well," said thirty-six years old from Arma di Taggia. "I'm lucky, I enjoy it at this age, but now I need to recover physically."
For his part, Auger-Aliassime, twenty-three years old from Montreal, arrived at the Parisian slam with little confidence. Just a victory for the Canadian tennis player in this parenthesis on the red, moreover against the number 240 ATP in Lyon. Just in France, the number 10 ATP stopped a few days ago for a physical problem that evidently did not recover at his best, a shoulder problem that last week forced him to retire in Lyon.
Now the 36-year-old Italian awaits the Australian Jason Kubler, number 69 in the ATP ranking, who defeated the Argentine Facundo Diaz Acosta in five sets.