The quarter-final in Washington between Corentin Moutet and Daniil Medvedev was interrupted on Friday while the storm threatened while the Frenchman Lucky Loser led 5-4 in the last round against the Russian, a service to follow for the former world number 1.
The interruption could not fall at a worst time for Corentin Moutet, who definitely lives a fairly incredible Washington tournament. After having sprayed his compatriot Alexandre Muller then dominated Thursday Dan Evans to find himself thus in the quarter -finals of this competition which he had however been eliminated from the qualifications, here is now the Parisian to a game to climb in the last square and to offer himself a feat of size at the expense of Daniil Medvedev.
The catch is that for the moment, this potential semi-final for the world world is only hypothetical. While the Lucky Loser drafted as he lost to the Chinese Wu in the second round of qualifying continued to race in the lead in the last set of this match which had first seen the 14th in the classification take the lead by swept the French in 24 minutes in a first one-way round then Moutet Recolle by reacting very nicely in the second set, the storm which was already running above the American capital more and more threatening.
To the point of obliging the supervisor to return the two players to the locker room.
Moutet, Lucky Loser in the semi-finals?
The unhappy finalist of the Majorca grass tournament last month then led 5-4 and was only a game to conclude the game at the end of a sumptuous service game embellished with a spoon service, the Moutet trademark, which had dismissed break balls in the shovel in this last round stopped while none of the two players had still managed to take the service of the other. It was therefore not forbidden to think that this second confrontation between the two men – the first had seen Medvedev easily prevail in Mallorca in 2021 – continues, not to say that it is dragged.
Despite this unique game which separated, certainly with service to follow for the former world number 1, our representative of a feat against the “Tsar”, to whom Benjamin Bonzi, another French, had bite the entrance dust in Wimbledon a few weeks ago. Except that this time, the performance would come from a draft player while he was about to suit his suitcases. A Lucky Loser that could be tested in the last square. Rare fact, but not yet done.
