Argentine tennis players, who have retired, will compete in the Grand Slam of Legends that will take place this week in Paris. They defeated Davenport and Fernández in a double 6-3.
Gabriela Sabatithe best Argentine tennis player in history, and his countryman Gisela Dolko successfully initiated their participation in contest of legendsan exhibition taking place in Roland Garrosby defeating the Americans Lindsay today Davenport and Mary Joe Fernandez by 6-3 and 6-3.
Sabatini, 52 years old and former number three on the planet, and Dulko, 37 and former leader of the doubles world rankingsprevailed over the North Americans in 54 minutes of play in a match valid for Group A followed by some Argentine fans at the Suzanne Lenglen court of the complex located in the Parisian neighborhood of Bois de Boulogne.
“There were logical nerves before going out on the field, but it helped us a lot that we got along so well, and the extra laughter outside relaxed us. We were able to have fun and it was a big feeling to get into the game. . “Sabatini admitted in dialogue with the press. Gabi starred in a brilliant career in which he won 27 singles titles, most notably the US Open in 1990. He also added 14 doubles trophies, including Wimbledon in 1988, partnering Steffi Graf of Germany.
“The important thing is that everything worked well, we made good points and we had fun. The smash went well, the serve wasn’t a strong point in my career but it wasn’t bad.”Sabatini added, while a group of Argentines were impatiently waiting for him to sign autographs and take modern “selfies” that didn’t exist in his time as a tennis player, when he retired 26 years ago the past.
Dulko, who debuted as a professional in 1999, when the best tennis player in Argentine history retired for three years, left tennis in 2012 with a career that included four solo titles and 17 doubles, where she is number one in the world along with Italian Flavia Pennetta, with high scores such as the 2010 Masters and the 2011 Australian Open. “Playing next to Gaby was a dream for me, it was a good feeling, it was all new for us, coming back to Paris was incredible”revealed Dulko, who also commented that he remains active and trained hard for the Legends tournament played in the second week of the French Grand Slam.
How Roland Garros of Legends was played
The women’s box contest has 16 players are divided into eight doubles teams into two groups of four each and have a round robin system. In other words, each couple will play until Friday three games from each zone and only the winning group team will advance to the final scheduled for next Saturday.
Nasa Group Ain addition to Sabatini and Dulkoand of their defeat Davenport Y MJ Fernandezthere is the French Tatiana Golovin and Natalie Tauziatand another couple consisting of Croatian Iva majoli and the local Mary penetrate. Nasa Group B there’s the Italian Flavia Pennetta and Francesca Schiavone; the slovak Daniela Hantuchova with American Martina Navratilova; the American Chanda Rubin in a duo with French Sandrine Testud and the Australian Rennae Stubbs with the Bulgarian Magdalena Maleeva.
Nasa man’s box there are also celebrities in the past such as Mark Baghdatis (Cyprus) and Goran Ivanisevic (Croatia); Henry I told him and Michael crying (France); Sebastian Grosjean and Cedric Tweety (France); Nicholas with a shield and Paul-Henri Mathieu (France); Arnaud clement and Fabrice Santoro (France). Mansour also scored bahrami (Iran) and Julien Benneteau (France); male forget (France) and Tommy Hass (Germany), and Xavier Malise (Belgium) and Mats Wilander (Sweden).
Source: Tycsports
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