News: 2022-04-19_20-48-04_david-goffin-au-tapis-dentree-a-belgrade

  ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

David Goffin au tapis d’entrée à Belgrade

(2022-04-19_20-48-04)


David Goffin a été éliminé au premier tour du tournoi de Belgrade, son troisième tournoi sur terre battue en autant de semaines, mardi dans la capitale serbe.

Le numéro 1 belge, 49e mondial, s’est incliné en deux sets 6-3 et 7-6 (7/4) face à la 8e tête de série de ce tournoi ATP 250 doté de 534.555 euros, le Serbe Filip Krajinovic, 45e mondial. La rencontre a duré 1 heure et 47 minutes.

Il s’agissait du septième duel entre les deux trentenaires. Le Liégeois en avait gagné quatre dont les deux derniers à l’US Open en 2020 et à Doha en 2021 mais aussi les deux seuls disputés sur terre au Challenger de Scheveningen en 2014 et à Roland-Garros en 2015.

En huitièmes de finale (2e tour), Filip Krajinovic rencontrera le qualifié brésilien Thiago Monteiro (ATP 110), tombeur 6-4, 6-3 du Portugais Joao Sousa (ATP 85).



Like you, I am frequently haunted by profound questions related to man's
place in the Scheme of Things. Here are just a few:

Q -- Is there life after death?
A -- Definitely. I speak from personal experience here. On New
Year's Eve, 1970, I drank a full pitcher of a drink called "Black Russian",
then crawled out on the lawn and died within a matter of minutes, which was
fine with me because I had come to realize that if I had lived I would have
spent the rest of my life in the grip of the most excruciatingly painful
headache. Thanks to the miracle of modern orange juice, I was brought back
to life several days later, but in the interim I was definitely dead. I
guess my main impression of the afterlife is that it isn't so bad as long
as you keep the television turned down and don't try to eat any solid foods.
-- Dave Barry