Russian tennis player Aslan Karatsev won the qualifying final and qualified to play in the main draw of the Roland Garros Grand Slam tournament.
Ranking 62nd in the Professional Tennis Association rankings in the decisive game, Karatsev defeated the world’s 187th racket, American Nicholas Moreno-De Alboran, with a score of 6:4, 6:3.
The interview lasted 1 hour and 33 minutes.
Karatsev played two aces, made two double mistakes and transformed five breaking points. The US tennis player posted four aces, three double faults and two real breaking points.
The main draw of the tournament will start on 28 May and end on 11 June. The prize fund of the French Open is 49,600,000 Euros. Prior to that, five Russians were represented in the main draw in the men’s category: Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev, Karen Khachanov, Alexander Shevchenko and Roman Safiullin.
Yevgeny Kafelnikov, formerly the world’s first racket, the most winning tennis player in Russian history spoke About the future of 16-year-old Russian Mirra Andreeva at the French Open. He noted that it is too early to evaluate the athlete’s chances, but his recent achievements are evidence of the development of Russian tennis.