France - W35 Aix-les-Bains - Isabella Maria Serban vs Zantedeschi, Aurora

Player	1	2	3	S
Isabella Maria Serban		2	7	2	1
Aurora Zantedeschi		6	5	6	2

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Rafael Jodar hits back to beat Pablo Carrenño Busta at Wimbledon after delay

Teenager wins 3-6, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 in match held overZverev and De Minaur reach round three in straight setsThis is Rafael Jodar’s first Wimbledon and yet the way the 19-year-old plays and talks, you would think he is playing his 10th. Trailing two sets to one to another Spaniard, Pablo Carrenño Busta, in a match held over from the previous evening when the light ran out, he could easily have been nervous when the encounter resumed, thinking his first time here could be about to end.Not a bit of it. Jodar quickly levelled and then edged the fifth to win 3-6, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 and move into the third round. “I knew I had to get my body ready for the next day, because obviously I was down,” said Jodar, who has burst on to the scene this year and who reached the quarter-finals at Roland Garros last month. “But I believed in my chances. I believed that I could come back and win the fourth set and then the fifth set. That’s what happened. Continue reading...

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Savvy Matteo Berrettini has too much for France’s feisty Arthur Fils

Former Wimbledon finalist wins explosive Centre Court contest in four setsIt has been 43 years and four weeks since a French man won a grand slam. The odds that it’s about to be 43 years and five just got a whole lot shorter. Their last contender, Arthur Rinderknech, plays Novak Djokovic in the third round on Friday, but their great hope heading into the championships, Arthur Fils, lost to Matteo Berrettini on Centre Court, 6-4, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, in a performance that included a couple of flare-ups with the umpire and his own coaches, a lot of hot exclamations, exultations, and exhalations, and an array of absolutely staggering shots.They hadn’t seen Fils, who is 22, on Centre Court before. But then they haven’t seen much of him anywhere in the past 12 months, which he has mostly spent recovering from the stress fracture in his back he sustained at last year’s French Open. The eight-month break interrupted his rise up the rankings and put a hold on all the talk on the circuit about how he was one of the few young players around with the game to take on the duopoly of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz. Continue reading...

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