Roland-Garros 2022: Russian Kasatkina qualified for semi-finals

The world number one Iga Swiatek faces the American Jessica Pegula, before the last two male quarters, whose Scandinavian duel in the evening between the Norwegian Casper Ruud and the Danish Holger Rune.

Le Monde

Following the semi-finals of Roland-Garros on Wednesday June 1. After the victory of the Russian Daria Kasatkina against his compatriot Veronika Kudermetova (6-4, 7-6), the world number one Polish Iga Swiatek is opposed to the American Jessica Pegula (11 e ) .

will follow the matculinum table matches between Russian Andrey Rublev (7 e ) and the Croatian giant Marin Cilic (20 e ), which never seemed so comfortable on the Parisian clay, and the Scandinavian duel between the Norwegian Casper Ruud (8 e ) and the Danish nugget Holger Rune, in the evening.

Daria Kasatkina, First half in large home


 Daria Kasatkina qualified Wednesday June 1, for the first time in her career in the semi-finals of a big tournament Slam. The Daria Kasatkina qualified Wednesday June 1, for the first time in her career in the semi-finals of a Grand Chelem tournament . Thibault Camus/AP

Russian Daria Kasatkina won, not without a few frights on Wednesday, facing another Russian Veronika Kudermetoa in two sets (6-4, 7-6) . While led a set to nothing and served for the match at 5-4, Kasatkina saw her opponent break up. Ditto during the decisive game: the 25-year-old player had 5 match balls (6-1), but Kudermetova did not drop anything and returned to 6-5, before cracking on a cushion.

“I discovered the clay earth quite late, around 10 years old, I believe. In Russia, we do not have many courts in the ground. But from the start, I loved this surface. Find it very intuitive. We can make so many different blows. Now I even prefer the earth to hard surfaces, “said, in 2018, the former winner of the junior tournament (2014), whose best performance Porte d’Auteuil was a quarter-final that year rightly, against the American Sloane Stephens.

In the semi-finals, Daria Kasatkina, who has still not lost a set in the Parisian tournament, will be opposed to the winning of the match between Iga Swiatek and Jessica Pegula.

/Media reports.