We’ve seen some good matches and we’ve seen some absolutely amazing matches in the ongoing 2023 French Open taking place in Paris. And while you usually associate the longest matches on court with the men’s draw, here’s a match that went longer than many of the men’s games this tournament, even though the WTA matches have only 3 sets as compared to 5 sets in the ATP games.
This game was a super topsy-turby one at the iconic Suzanne Lenglen court, where we just couldn’t ever tell who was going to end up victorious. With clay already being a big physical challenge, we didn’t imagine that the Sara Sorribes Tormo vs Beatriz Haddad Maia game would go on so long and create records in the process.
Sorribes Tormo vs Haddad Maia clock nearly 4 hours!
At first, commentators and others celebrated the milestone of hitting the 3-hour mark in the game, while the two were deep in the third and final set. Then, the next milestone was the longest WTA game of the 2023 French Open, passing the previous longest of 3 hours and 9 minutes in this tournament. However, they were going to pass that clock timing by a long way too!
Both players were pushing their limits as they eventually finished with a match timing of 3hr 51 mins which was the longest game this WTA season, across all surfaces. The previous longest was only recently in Rome where Haddad Maia was in action once again, losing there to Anhelina Kalinina; this time however, she ended up on the winning side.
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What’s better is that they went on to record the second longest women’s match in the 130+ year history of the Roland Garros grand slam. The Brazilian Haddad Maia ended up on the winning side after several breaks and break backs in the final set, which she triumphed 7-5 and entered her first ever grand slam quarter final, seeded 14th in the women’s draw of the 2023 French Open.
Society after Haddad Maia vs Sorribes Tormo ends pic.twitter.com/d231wF5KxX
— Yonis (@lastdanceszn) June 5, 2023
Beatriz Haddad Maia and Sara Sorribes Tormo are playing what has now become the longest women's match of the season at 3h42 (and counting).
The previous one? Kalinina d. HADDAD MAIA 6-7(2), 7-6(6), 6-3 after 3h41 in Rome.
— Gaspar Ribeiro Lança (@gasparlanca) June 5, 2023
No. As Sara Sorribes Tormo levels the match at 5-5 in the 3rd after saving three match points against Beatriz Haddad Maia, Tennis Channel is astonishingly talking about the ongoing match at the Tennis Channel desk instead of showing it. pic.twitter.com/dHVz1KUOQl
— Is Tennis Channel Showing the Right Match? (@TCShowing) June 5, 2023
In fact, she went on to become only the second Brazilian female tennis player to reach the quarter final of a grand slam event in the open era, the last one being 55 years ago in 1968! Interestingly, she never made it past Round 2 of any grand slam of her career past this, so she’s pumped up and showed a lot of character in this game, eventually progressing after beating Sara Sorribes Tormo.
The 27-year old will want to get some good rest ahead of her quarter final game and one ting we know for sure is that she will look to take her opponent deep into that game as well, as she can go the distance when it comes to physicality. For similar updates from Roland Garros 2023 and other tennis tournaments from around the world, stay tuned to ReadScoops.com…
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