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5/16/09 3:07 PM | Ricky Dimon
2004 French Open champion Gaston Gaudio will be back at Roland Garros this year after after being awarded a wild card earlier this week.
Gaston Gaudio will soon return to the site of his greatest triumph.
Gaudio, the shock champion at Roland Garros in 2004, received a wild card into the upcoming French Open on Friday. The 30-year-old Argentine missed out on a trip to Paris last year due to injury, but now he will be back despite a ranking in the 300s.
Sidelined with various injuries and thought to be done with his tennis career, Gaudio did not win a match at the ATP level in almost two full years, dating back to the first round of the 2007 French Open. Making a surprise return this season, the former world No. 5 advanced one round at the Open Banco Sabadell on the clay courts of Barcelona.
Gaudio also won a Challenger event last month and reached the quarterfinals of a Challenger in Bordeaux, France this week. In the second round he upset top-seeded Fabrice Santoro 4-6, 7-6(7), 6-2 after saving a match point in the second-set tiebreaker.
In one of the more memorable French Open finals, Gaudio captured his lone Grand Slam title with a stunning 0-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, 8-6 victory over Guillermo Coria. Coria, the dominant clay-courter in the previous half of this decade, squandered two championship points in the fifth set.
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i should have said isner
remi , 5/17/09 7:00 AM
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Australia's Bernard Tomic and Olivia Rogowska were given the other two wildcards.
Young Tomic is one to watch.
remi , 5/17/09 6:12 AM