Recent years Diego Schwarzman He established himself as the face of Argentine tennis and one of the best players in the world on clay, with excellent results season after season. Roland Garrosthe most important circuit tournament on this surface, has not been immune to good results for the man from Buenos Aires.
Inside this US Open El Peque has reached the quarterfinals twice, but even there his numbers are nowhere near those of Roland Garros, where he is used to being one of the last in the standings.
Three of his last four releases French open They had Schwartzman at least in the quarterfinals: in 2018 it reached this level for the first time as the 11th seed after coming back from a two-set deficit against Kevin Anderson in the previous round. Rafael Nadalthe historic king of Roland Garros, eliminated the Argentine in the quarterfinals, but not before losing the first set and getting bogged down in the second, just as the match was interrupted by rain.
Schwartzman’s passage from Paris to 2019 was forgettablebecause his countryman Leonardo Mayer knocked him out in the second round in a three hour game. But in 2020 Peque had a spectacular Roland Garros in which he reached the quarterfinals without dropping a set and upset the runner-up in 2018 and 2019 Dominic Tim 7-6 (1), 5-7, (6) 6-7, 7-6 (5) and 6-2 before falling to Nadal in the semifinals.
Nadal was also the one who left him on the streets in 2021 in four setssince the Argentine has won four consecutive matches in sets.
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Before, In 2017, Schwartzman fell in the third round but put Novak Djokovic against the wallwhom he won two of the first three sets.
Ahead of the 2023 French Open, only once has Schwarzman been eliminated by an opponent other than Federer/Djokovic/Nadal or a compatriot: He was Gael Monfils in the second round in 2015. He had made his debut in this tournament the previous year: he qualified without problems (he failed in 2013) and fell against Roger Federer in the second round after defeating Gastao Elias .
Schwartzman’s 2023 is poor, leaving him on the verge of dropping out of the top 100. Can he recapture those feelings from past seasons in Paris?
Diego Schwartzman’s statistics at Roland Garros
- Participations: 9 (excluding 2023)
- Record: 21-9
- The best performance: semi-final in 2020
- Nearest precedent: in the 2022 edition he lost in the round of 16 to Novak Djokovic
