Fed Cup

By Le Figaro with AFP

Published 3 hours ago, Updated 3 hours ago

Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard stops in quarters in Antwerp. JASPER JACOBS / AFP

The two French players were eliminated this Friday in the quarter-finals, beaten by Alexander Bublik and Maximilian Marterer.

Arthur Fils now alone carries the French hopes in Antwerp. For good reason, the adventure ended in the quarter-finals for the French Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard and Hugo Gaston, this Friday at the ATP 250 tournament in Belgium.

Mpetshi Perricard, 226th player in the world, lost 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 against the Kazakh Alexander Bublik (36th and seeded N.3), and Gaston (96th in the world) was dominated by the German Maximilian Marterer (127th) 6-3, 6-2.

Facing Mpetshi Perricard, who was playing the first quarter-final of his career, the Kazakh made the first break, recovered immediately by the Frenchman, who lost the advantage serving in the fourth game. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard again made the break in the last game of the second set, which put him back in the game. But he collapsed in the third set where the Kazakh managed two breaks, despite the 18 aces suffered during the match.

Gaston was no match

In the semi-final Bublik will face Gaston’s slayer, Maximilian Marterer. Against the Toulouse player, the German took the serve in the second game of the first of the first set, before passing 6 aces allowing him to close the first set in 26 minutes. Hugo Gaston was taken two additional serves during the second round, and was unable to come back, suffering another 4 aces in 35 minutes of play.

During this first meeting between the two players, the match ended with a serve from Marterer, without Gaston having scored a single point in the last game. Hugo Gaston had not played a quarter-final again on the main circuit since June 2022 in ‘s-Hertogenbosch.

In the evening a third Frenchman, Arthur Fils (38th), seeded number 4, will face the Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas, 69th in the world and seeded number 8.

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2023-10-20 16:10:52
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