Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard58th in the ATP ranking at 20 years old and a great unknown, It was presented in society this Tuesday on the second day of Wimbledon.
The promising French tennis player has connected 51 direct serves to score the first victory of his career in the ‘Grand Slam’. His victim was Sebastian Korda, the twentieth seed, with a score of 7-6(5), 6-7(4), 7-6(6), 7-6(4) and 6-3, in 3 hours and 21 minutes.
Perricard was able to enter the draw at the last minute as a ‘lucky loser’ after Sunday’s resignation of Alejandro Davidovich due to low back pain.
Since the retirement of John Isner and the disappearance due to injury of Reilly Opelka that there was no bomber of such magnitude in the men’s circuit. The Frenchman will face the Japanese Nishioka in the second round.
Statistics show that Perricard is warming up his arm as the days go by. In the first match of the qualifier he achieved 12 ‘aces’, in the second, 20, and in the third, 44. Today he has surpassed himself. The total number of direct services in this edition of Wimbledon reaches 127.
