Alizé Cornet will go no further than the quarter -finals in the Spanish tournament of Bisbal d’Emporda (WTA 125). Friday, the French player returned to the circuit when she announced that she was retiring abandoned against the Hungarian Dalma Galfi when she was led 6-0, 3-0.
It was certainly a lot of emotions for Alizé Cornet. It was also very trying physically at no doubt. The French player who had provoked a real draft by announcing that she had decided to return to the circuit and to resume competition when she had announced that she was retiring was not going to the end of her quarter -final, this Friday on the Spanish clay of Bisbal d’Emporda (WTA 125). After 36 minutes of play, the Niçoise preferred to throw in the towel.
It must be said that the scenario of this meeting which opposed him in the quarterfinals in the Hungarian Dalma Galfi was completely unfavorable to him when our 35 -year -old representative came back down to 5232nd in the world abandoned. The 159th in the classification had indeed not lost the slightest game and led 3-0 in the second round after having already won the first set, on the final score of 6-0, when Cornet, completely outdated, took advantage of a change of side to approach his opponent and shake her hand, probably marked by his victory of the day before the Swiss Susan Trait Almost three hours and had seen Cornet force the decision by winning 7-5 in the last set while a decisive game was looming for the two players.
And now Rouen
For his comeback on the courts, after almost a year of absence, the former number 11 at the WTA, notably become a tennis consultant from France Télévisions during the last Roland-Garros, had managed to chain two successes this week in Spain. The young retiree who is no longer in fact had indeed stretched (6-1, 6-2) the local player Irene Burillo Escorihuela (231st) on the occasion of her very first match since the slap received in Paris on May 28 against Qinwen Zheng.
A defeat that had signed the farewell of Cornet to tennis, it was believed before she surprised everyone by quickly stopping her retirement to find the circuit. If the concerned, which should climb in the hierarchy, has already announced that it would not compete Roland-Garros, she should however align herself in Rouen and then try to cross the qualifying stadium in Rome and Madrid.
