Khachanov survives – Karen Khachanov reached the Roland Garros third round after surviving a brutal match-point miss, eventually beating Marco Trungelliti in a four-set thriller that flipped multiple times.
Karen Khachanov had match point—then watched it slip away on a shanked smash.
With the crowd at Court Suzanne Lenglen roaring, he set up inside the service line as if the point was routine. Everything looked calm until the swing went wrong. The ball came off the top of the frame, sailed high beyond the frame, and into the stadium as fans erupted in shock and disbelief.
Marco Trungelliti wasn’t finished. He saved the match point and then broke Khachanov back, turning a near-certain end into another turning point.
Khachanov finally closed it out anyway, winning 7-6(5), 5-7, 6-1, 7-6(4) over the 36-year-old Argentinean showman. But it wasn’t a straight line to the finish. The match-point miss happened after Khachanov had been up 5-4, 40-30. Trungelliti responded by breaking back as the fourth set escalated into a tiebreak.
That breaker didn’t decide itself early. It was deadlocked at 4-all when Khachanov sprinted down an outrageous Trungelliti angled dropper. He shoveled a reply down the line. and that retrieval shifted the momentum for good. pushing him over the line into the Roland Garros third round for the eighth time in 10 appearances.
The next test is already set. The 13th-seeded Khachanov will face lucky loser Jesper de Jong for a fourth-round spot. De Jong’s path to this match has been rapid: he lost to Columbia all-American Michael Zheng in the final round of qualifying. then backed up his return with consecutive main-draw wins over Stan Wawrinka and Federico Cina.
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match point mishap sounds brutal, how do you shank it that bad 😬
So he was up like 5-4 and then just lost the whole moment?? Tennis is wild. Also I don’t even know what a lucky loser is half the time.
Dude the article says the ball sailed into the stadium… like outside the court? That seems like a misread by whoever wrote it. But either way, Court Suzanne Lenglen sounds like it makes people go crazy.
I swear tennis matches flip faster than football. He shanked it, then Trungelliti breaks back, then tiebreak at 4-all, and somehow he still wins 7-6 like twice? Also ‘lucky loser Jesper de Jong’ sounds like he just lucked into a bracket spot, not earned it lol.