“When I am coming to Roland Garros, I am coming thinking about winning the tournament”.
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“This is a very bad position, but that’s life”.
A right wrist injury forced him to skip the 2014 US Open.
“He plays with a lot of speed, is good from the baseline and it was not easy for me to play the points the way I wanted”, Djokovic said of 32-year-old Darcis.
That made Nadal’s career record in major tournaments 200-30, a winning percentage of.870. We take risks yesterday. However, any kind of wrist problems can be a nightmare for a tennis player, as the likes of Juan Martin Del Potro and Laura Robson will attest, particularly when the issue is in your main hitting arm. Every day the image is a little bit worse.
He won his second-round match in straight sets Thursday, playing after getting an injection to numb the pain in his wrist.
The other men with 50 victories at the French Open – Nadal, Federer, Guillermo Vilas, Ivan Lendl, Andre Agassi and Nicola Pietrangeli – all won at least one title at the clay-court tournament.
A day after notching up his 200th grand slam victory with an imperious 6-3 6-0 6-3 second-round win over Argentina’s Facundo Bagnis, a grim-faced Nadal walked into a hurriedly arranged news conference wearing a navy blue brace around his stricken wrist.
Muguruza, who was the runner-up at Wimbledon a year ago and reached the quarterfinals at the French Open in 2014 and 2015, lost one service game to Wickmayer in the first set but otherwise had no real difficulties.
“It is not the end. I feel myself with the right motivation and the right energy to be back in Roland Garros the next couple of years, and I really hope to keep having my chances in the future”.
“He’s our biggest champion here”, Forget said.
However, Wimbledon is only a month away.
“We’re going to work hard to be ready for Wimbledon”, the Spaniard said. We tried to do all the treatments possible.
“We expect to recover quick and to be ready for Wimbledon”.
“But it’s not a moment to talk about that”.
Nadal said he does not need surgery “at the moment”, but he might if he didn’t take time off now. “I hope to have a fast recovery”.
His third-round opponent, Marcel Granollers, moves on via a walkover.
After making the semifinals at Roland Garros in 2014, Bouchard lost in the first round past year.
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Rogers, an American ranked 108th, is now into the fourth round at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time.
