PARIS: Sixth seed Bianca Andreescu was thrown from their French Open in the first round on Monday, dropping a marathon three-set struggle to Slovenia’s world number 85 Tamara Zidansek.
Zidansek, that will confront American Madison Brengle at the next round, won 6-7 (1/7), 7-6 (7/2), 9-7 following three hours and 20 minutes.
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Canada’s Andreescu, the injury-plagued 2019 US Open winner, was a gym for the championship after pulling from an occasion in Strasbourg past Wednesday.
But she had been pressured to a gruelling deciding place against Zidansek, which witnessed the world number seven don’t perform the match at 5-4 and save a game point two matches later.
Zidansek made two match points from the 16th game of the next set and desired just one to wrap up success.
The greatest women’s singles game at French Open history stays Virginie Buisson’s first-round triumph over fellow Frenchwoman Noelle van Lottum in 1995, that lasted four hours and seven minutes.