MOSCOW, June 2, Svetlana Bonopartova. Former ninth racket of the world Andrey Chesnokov claimed that Russian tennis player Andrey Rublev fell apart in the third set of the third round match of the French Open, while his rival Lorenzo Sonego played on Italian emotions.
On Friday, Rublev lost to Sonego with a score of 7:5, 6:0, 3:6, 6:7 (5:7), 3:6 and could not reach the fourth round of the French Open.
““Rublev unconditionally led the first two sets, I would even say, demolished his opponent. I could not have imagined that in the third set the Italian would tune in and play like that, and Rublev, on the contrary, would fall apart. Andrey had quite a lot unforced blunders, kilometer outs. I hoped that he would pull himself together and find his game, but this did not happen,» Chesnokov said.
Grand SlamsRoland Garros ATP02 june 2023 • start at 13:25FinishedLorenzo SonegoItaly3 : 25:70:66:37:66:3Andrey RublevRussia
«Honestly, Rublev's loss today came as a surprise to me. I thought that he is more solid and better (his opponent). But Sonego caught the courage and played on Italian emotions,» Chesnokov added.