Bordeaux: Humbert is back!

Bordeaux: Humbert is back!

Impressive Friday in the semi-finals against Richard Gasquet, to whom he left only two games (6-0, 6-2), Ugo Humbert will play the final of the Bordeaux Challenger tournament on Saturday. A victory which also allows Messin to be sure of becoming French number 1 again in the next ranking.

Ugo Humbert could not have chosen his moment better to find his best level. Ten days before the start of Roland-Garros, where he has never passed the first round in four participations, the Messin seems to have once again become the player capable of beating everyone on the circuit, including the best, and not just on a big day. Twenty-fifth in the ranking two years ago – his best ranking to date – the young French player of 24 years is not there yet at the accounting level. On the other hand, he is already certain to become the French number 1 again in the next ranking (Editor’s note: He will be 44th at worst). Today, the best ranked of our representatives is Richard Gasquet, who appears in 44th place in the ATP ranking. This same Gasquet who was swept away on Friday (6-0, 6-2) in the semi-finals of the Bordeaux Challenger tournament by a Humbert who had already made a strong impression the day before against Stan Wawrinka, ex-world number 3, like four days earlier, for his debut in the tournament against the great hope of French tennis Arthur Fils. The latter, like the Swiss, had the merit of causing some problems for Lorrain, now trained by Jérémy Chardy in addition to Thierry Ascione.

Against Etcheverry in the final

This was not the case on Friday with Gasquet. Manhandled from the first to the last point by the winner of the Cagliari tournament at the beginning of the month (again a Challenger tournament), the Biterrois, sounded from the start on a terrible 6-0, only managed to register two games in his young compatriot in this part came to confirm the enormous progress for several weeks of the one who was not even part of the first hundred worlds at the start of the season (Humbert had found himself 109th at one point). Two weeks after triumphing in Sardinia, Denis Shapovalov’s heartthrob in Indian Wells last March now has the opportunity to add a new trophy to his collection. For that, it will be necessary to beat the Argentinian Tomas Etcheverry, executioner Friday in the first semi-final of the German Jan-Lennard Struff, who had reached the final in Madrid last week when he was lucky loser.

Exit mobile version