After their respective defeats against Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka for Ugo Blanchet (6-4, 6-3) and Reilly Opelka for Kyrian Jacquet (6-4, 3-6, 2-6), the Haut-Savoyard duo challenged, this Thursday, the head n ° 2 of the tournament, Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul, respectively 43rd and 30th in the ATP of Doubles. Breaké from the start, by the accustomed pair of the circuit, the Saint-Juliennois and the annecian by adoption was poorly taken in their match and conceded the first set of the match (2-6) in 28 minutes of play.
Despite their efforts, the Hauts-Savoyards bowed in the second round (4-6) and was therefore eliminated from the tournament. “They were very hard to play. We know them very well and we get along well with them. We know it’s a very good pair. They have been playing all year round for several years. We rarely play together. I do not play too much the double and Ugo too so we do not have a lot of benchmarks on the court. They know each other by heart so it’s never easy to play against this kind of team, ”said Kyrian Jacquet.
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A preparation for Roland-Garros
Both made two good starts of the season in single where they won three challenger to their two, (Chennai and New Delhi for Jacquet and Koblenz for Blanchet), which will allow them to get in good shape at Roland-Garros: “I feel better and better, especially on clay. Little by little, I feel really better. After it will take a few victories to validate all of this, “said Ugo Blanchet, 26, completed by his partner, Kyrian Jacquet” I made a good start to the season on hard. It takes a little more time on clay. I need a few weeks of tournament that I could not have yet since after my tour in India, I rebles out. So there, it was almost my first tournament from India. I have to chain the matches and take time on earth to take the automatisms and that the level of play follows. I just need a little bit of time. ”
The rest is coming, now, in Italy where Jacquet is engaged in a Challenger 75 then in Zagreb, in Croatia where they will meet to play the last tournament before going to challenge the older ones to Roland-Garros.
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