If there are still French people left in the Australian Open following the elimination of Gaël Monfils this Monday, other tricolors are still in the various paintings.
Jean Borotra and Amélie Mauresmo will remain one year more French to have won the Australian Open in simple, it was respectively in 1928 and 2006. Gaël Monfils, last tricolor representative in simple, was indeed eliminated this Monday, but that does not mean that there is no chance of seeing a Frenchman triumph in Melbourne this year. They are indeed still five present in the various tables, if the legends tournament and the para-tennis tournaments have except it. Began Kristina MladenoviceEliminated from the single qualifications, but which will compete in the quarter -finals of the double tournament. The 31 -year -old player teams up with Chinese Shuai Zhang, with whom she had played the final of the last US Open. And the seeded pair n ° 9 and in particular eliminated pair n ° 5 (Chan/Kichenok) in the round of 16, which gives it the right to face the pair n ° 1, composed of Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend.
In Melbourne, Kristina Mladenovic aims for a seventh Grand Chelem tournament in double ladies. A Frenchman is also still in the running in a male double, and it is the veteran Roger-Vasselin Edward (41 years old), who dreams of a second Grand Chelem victory in this event, after that at Roland-Garros in 2014 with Julien Benneteau. The Ile -de -France head of standard n ° 15 alongside the Monegasque Hugo Nys, and after three victories against non -head pairs, they will challenge the N ° 6 in the quarterfinals, the Finn Harri Heliovaara and the British Henry Patten.
Kouamé in the running in two paintings
On the junior side, three French nuggets are still in competition. And honor to Moses KouaméStill in the running in single and double. The 15 -year -old, already ranked 958th at ATP, is the head of the tournament and qualified for the round of 16, where the head of the n ° 1 is waiting for him, the Czech Jan Kumstat, who celebrated his 18th birthday this Monday. The native of Sarcelles will also play the knockout stages of the double tournament, where he heads n ° 4 alongside the Spaniard Andres Santamarta Roig.
Among girls, in a tournament where the one who is announced as the next generation of French tennis Ksenia Efremova (15 years old) was eliminated from the start, we find a certain Daphnée Mpeshi PéricardWho is none other than Giovanni’s sister, aged 16. After having passed the first round, she will challenge the seeded n ° 16, the German Julia Stasek. Finally, in a junior female double, Margot Phanthala (17 years old) team up with Chinese Ruien Zhang, and they will play the knockout stages against the heads of series n ° 8, the German Julia Stasek and the Serbian Luna Vujovic. Will one of these blues raise a trophy by the weekend?
