VIDEO. Roland-Garros: Benjamin Bonzi comes out in the first round of qualifying after losing the first set

Benjamin Bonzi continues the adventure. Screenshot France TV

After a fight lasting more than two hours, Benjamin Bonzi ended up winning during the first round of Roland-Garros qualifying, Monday May 20, against the Bolivian Hugo Dellien 3-6, 6-4, 6-2.

It’s a victory which could be the start of something for Nîmes. Although trailing after losing the first round against the difficult Bolivian Hugo Dellien (163rd in the world), Benjamin Bonzi ended up winning.

In the next round, Bonzi (175th) will have to beat Benoît Paire's scorer, Jozef Kovalik (146th), against whom he lost in the semi-final of the Split Challenger in mid-April. A rematch would allow him to have a third match to hope to escape the qualifying jungle and enter the final draw of Roland-Garros.

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A timid start to the match

However, the Gardois started the match badly against the South American on Monday on the small court N.7 located near the Philippe-Chatrier court. More timid than Dellien, terribly effective at the start of the match, Bonzi lost his serve twice to fall behind in the score (3-6).

But the former player from Anduze came back with much better intentions in the second set by breaking twice against the native of Trinidad to lead 4-1 before being broken a first time times (4-2). And although he was serving for the set at 5-4, the Frenchman was trailing 0-40 before finally breaking through and equalizing at 1-1 (6-4).< /p>

One last point on the image of the meeting

In the third, Bonzi let loose completely to disgust Dellien on numerous occasions, raising his arms to the sky when his opponent's balls crashed on the line or took one bout.

And although the Bolivian managed to break immediately after losing his serve the first time, Bonzi did not let go of his grip to break again to lead 4-2 then 5-2 afterwards a new station wagon.

Before concluding on a magnificent point like his encounter: wandered around the four corners of the court, the Nîmes player finished a race to the net with a magnificent lob to blow up the audience remained on court N.7.

A performance that Alès player Carole Monnet (194th) failed to imitate, beaten by the Spaniard Burillo Escorihuela (280th) 6-3 , 6-0.