Second match on lawn this season for Alexandre Muller and a new defeat for the Frenchman, released from the start to Mallorca by the Russian Roman Safiulin (75th), winner in two sets (7-6, 7-5) of the 40th world.
Alexandre Muller, Corentin Moutet, Arthur Rinderknech and Benjamin Bonzi. There are four French people this week in Mallorca on the starting line of this tournament which constitutes in the same way as that of Eastbourne, which is disputed at the same time, a last gallop of testing before starting serious things, from next week in Wimbledon. On the other hand, in the best of cases, the Blues will have three representatives in the second round on the grass on the island of the Balearic. For Muller, the event stopped at the start, this Monday after the defeat of the 40th in the ranking against Roman Safiullin.
After a good start to the season on clay, notably with a third round in Madrid and a quarter -final in Hamburg (with a feat against Zverev), the Ile -de -France very seriously marks the plunge. Released from the outset to Roland-Garros (by the Czech Jakub Mensik), the winner of the Hong Kong tournament last January (his first title on the circuit) also left Halle in his beginnings last week (certainly after having lost against Alexander Bublik, future winner), before, therefore, to undergo a third round elimination in the first round, this Monday (75th) to whom he offered a good resistance without succeeding in the Russian, a solid winner in two sets (7-6, 7-5) when the Frenchman had in turn managed to break his opponent in the second round.
Last year, he had not played any Gazon tournament before lacking nothing to drop Medvedev…
If Muller wanted to reassure himself before setting off on the All England Country Club and Wimbledon, where he never exceeded the second round (Editor’s note: two defeats at this stage of the tournament in two participations), it is missed. Since the start of the season on grass, Xavier Pujo’s protégé has played two games, and lost them. Difficult to approach such an appointment with less certainty for the native of Poissy, who at least had the merit this year to take the temperature before the day D. last season, Muller had thus competed in any tournament on grass before Wimbledon, where he had been close to creating the sensation against Daniil Medvedev. Like what, the recipe (but not sure that that which consists in losing everything on the surface is as effective …) is also good. Answer next week.
