Tennis. US Open: At 26, Blanchet from Haute-Savoie wins his first Grand Slam victory
At 25 years old, Ugo Blanchet from Haute-Savoie recorded the first Grand Slam victory of his career on Sunday in New York, defeating Hungarian Fabian Marozsan.
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Frenchman Ugo Blanchet, ranked 184th in the world, secured his first Grand Slam main draw victory on Sunday in the first round of the US Open, defeating Hungarian Fabian Marozsan (53rd) in four sets. The right-hander, the only French player to survive the qualifying round, both men and women, won 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (9/7), 6-2 and will face Czech Jakub Mensik, ranked 16th in the ATP rankings, in the second round.
Before winning in New York, Blanchet had already qualified in May for the first round of Roland-Garros, his first appearance in the main draw of one of the four flagship tournaments on the calendar.
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But on the Parisian clay, he lost in five sets to his compatriot Hugo Gaston. On Sunday against Marozsan, the backward-wearing Frenchman claimed his second victory on the main circuit, just over a year after his first at the ATP 500 in Hamburg, on clay.
A regular on the Challenger circuit, the second-tier tournaments of men's professional tennis, Blanchet only played his first main draw on the circuit in February 2024, at the ATP 250 in Montpellier. He joined his compatriot Arthur Rinderknech (82nd) in the second round of the US Open, also qualifying in four sets earlier in the day.
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