He makes a sensational entry into the big leagues. In the first round of the US Open on Monday August 29, Titouan Droguet achieved a feat in his first-ever match on the world’s main tennis circuit. The 22-year-old tennis player, from Val-de-Marne, offered himself the scalp of Lorenzo Musetti, seeded n ° 18, in five sets (6-3, 0-6, 6-7, 6-3 , 6-2) and more than 3h40 of play.
Arriving in New York, the Frenchman, who usually plays on the Challenger circuit (2nd division), had posted 119,000 dollars in tournament earnings since his professional debut in 2018, including 3,700 dollars from the Meerbusch semi-final, his last tournament before the US Open. Just playing the second round of the main draw in New York will net him $123,000.
He will try to do even better and reach the third round by facing the Czech Jakub Mensik (206th) on Wednesday, also from qualifying and who beat another Frenchman, Grégoire Barrère (59th). “It’s hard to put into words, I still have a hard time realizing. Today’s game and the whole week are incredible emotions. It’s the first time I’ve experienced this, so it’s hard to realize,” he said hotly.
The feeling of winning your first career Grand Slam match. Titouan Droguet goes timber. pic.twitter.com/wbLCZK4cFp
Before his coup in the United States, the young Frenchman shone on the challenger circuit – a sort of second world division – with two doubles titles on this circuit. Titouan Droguet will above all have to recover from this victory – he did not seem to come back from it himself – to try to continue this epic.
