Faller two days earlier of world number 2 Daniil Medvedev, Thiago Seyboth Wild, a young Brazilian from qualifying, climbed this Thursday to the 3rd round, he who had never played in the tournament before. Winner in four sets of the Argentinian return Guido Pella, he will be opposed on Saturday to the Japanese Nishioka.
Daniil Medvedev’s scorer remains in the running. Last Tuesday, for his first match in the big picture at Roland-Garros, Thiago Seyboth Wild, a young 23-year-old Brazilian author of a very promising start to his career but then disappeared from the radar, created the first sensation of the fortnight by leaving entered the world number 2 winner in Rome just before heading for Paris. A resounding feat achieved on the Philippe-Chatrier court which had had everything from an earthquake at the time but required confirmation. Moreover, facing an opponent of a completely different standing, on a much less prestigious court and with this almost historic trap for one-day elephant gravediggers of not being able to line up a second major performance in order to have the chance to continue the adventure longer.
You didn’t need to see Seyboth Wild for long pounding “the Tsar” with his devastatingly powerful forehand to understand that the winner of the 2018 US Open juniors would have no trouble throwing the Argentinian return Guido Pella, certainly a heartthrob, him, in the first round of one of the many French in the running this year Porte d’Auteuil, namely Quentin Halys.
Seyboth Wild, revelation while waiting for better?
That’s a second win for @thiagoswild in #RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/1gguitKyMs
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On a white-hot number 9 with Argentine supporters in the stands to stand up to the Brazilian fans of the man who relaunched his career precisely by deciding to go into exile in… Argentina, the executioner of Medvedev rather easily dictated his law against to the former number 20 in the ranking today 423rd. Like the world number 2 before him, Pella benefited from a (slight) drop in speed from the one who had played only one Grand Slam tournament before this Roland-Garros (at the US Open in 2020, for an entry elimination) to find some air in this part, which he finally removed in four sets (6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3).
And it may not be over, because this Brazilian who had sounded the “Thiago, Thiago” two days earlier on a central already dreaming of seeing him follow in the footsteps of his illustrious compatriot “Guga” Kuerten will be opposed to the 3rd round to the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka, an opponent well within his reach if we stick to the first two games of the revelation of this start of the tournament.
