Arthur Fils, the bad streak

The collaboration between Arthur Fils and Sébastien Grosjean, his coach since the end of last season, has not started as well as hoped. The Frenchman, 36th in the world at 19 years old, was knocked out in the first round Tuesday, on the clay court of Buenos Aires. A loss to Dusan Lajovic (6/3, 6/4) that seems to confirm a negative trend.

The season had not started too badly for Fils with a quarterfinal in Hong Kong, defeated by Rublev (6/4, 1/6, 6/2), and then a semi-final in Auckland. A semi-final, but a disappointing first defeat (6/2, 7/5) against Alejandro Tabilo, then 82nd in the world. It was then thought that the Frenchman had conserved his energy just a few days before the Australian Open.

But what followed did not confirm this hypothesis, with a defeat in the second round in Melbourne, against Tallon Griekspoor (3/6, 6/1, 7/5, 6/4), especially disappointing in terms of attitude. He will, therefore, need to get good momentum going in Rio next week.