The French Open is not easy the tournament by Angelique Kerber. Germany’s best tennis player loses at the Grand Slam tournament in Paris against a largely unknown Russian.
Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber has failed at the French Open in the first round. After their forced break due to an ankle injury, the world ranking Fifth on Sunday, the 18-year-old Russian Anastasia Potapowa clearly with 4:6, 2:6 beat.
After 73 minutes on the sparsely-filled Center Court, the number 81 is turned to the world their third match ball. “It is not yet in full possession of their powers,” said the ladies Boss in the German Tennis Federation, Barbara Rittner, the TV channels Eurosport and had Kerber “uncertainty due to a lack of match practice”.
Only three games had denied the 31-Year-old before the second Grand Slam tournament of the year on clay. For the Fed Cup Kerber had to cancel due to the flu, at her home tournament in Stuttgart, she retired early, in Madrid, withdrew because of an ankle injury, and said for the tournament in Rome.
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The lack of security on the already unpopular covering of Sand was noted Kerber significantly. In the first passage, the German number one made it yet, the aggressive style of play of the French Open-debutante oppose something. However, overall, acted Kerber is much too passive and cautious. In the second pass, she got quickly 0:4 behind, came close once again on 2:4, but in a turn they no longer seemed to himself to believe.
Kerber had to retire for the fifth Time in the first round of the French Open and must bury their hopes on the so-called career Grand Slam, with titles at all four major tournaments, only once. Potapowa, however, came up with her third match ball to her first victory ever against a Top-Ten player.
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