Roland Garros 2024: who is Coco Gauff’s R1 opponent? Meet Russian Julia Avdeeva, Aryna Sabalenka’s Biggest Fangirl

American hopeful Coco Gauff is set to kick off her campaign at Roland Garros 2024 on Monday (May 27). Gauff, seeded third, will face Russian Julia Avdeeva in the first round on the Suzanne Lenglen court. Avdeeva, 21, will make her debut in the main draw at Roland Garros against one of the best on the women’s circuit. at present. She had never participated in a Grand Slam qualifying draw before this week. Actually, she didn’t even participate in a tour-level qualifying draw before that. But here in qualifying she looked enough impressive!

She defeated Guadalajara quarter-finalist, Emiliana Arango 6-4,2-6,6-3 during her first qualifiers in Paris. After that, she only needed two sets to defeat French tennis player Margaux Rouvroy by two sets in front of her home crowd. SO In the last match, Julia Avdeeva had to finally overcome the Australian obstacleOlivia Gadecki has enter the main draw of Roland-Garros 2024. Right-handed Russian tennis sensation, Avdeeva is actually put in 208th place in the women’s singles rankings.

Avdeeva started her journey on the ITF circuit in 2019. She won the ITF 60K Hamburg title. socket its ranking in the Top 300 for the first time. In April Julia Avdeeva made her WTA 125 debut as a lucky loser at the Oeiras Ladies Open. She had reached the second round of this tournament. After that, she reached her career-high WTA singles ranking of 188th in the world. May 20 2024. SO, far Avdeeva won 3 ITF titles during his career. Hopefully, for Russian tennis fans, there is even more to come from the game’s biggest stages.

Coco Gauff’s next opponent, Julia Avdiva has a powerful game that East center around a formidable first service. Do you have know, In FEBRUARY did she hit 74 aces in 5 matches en route to victory at the ITF W75 tournament in Altenkirchen? Before this appearance in the main event of Roland Garros, his the biggest success came when she scored two Top 100 victories against Jaqueline Cristian and Océane Dodin for the first time in her career. Before Roland-Garros, Avdeeva had a short stint at ITF Slovakia 03A.

But in Paris, she wanted to create a historical moment and put his name on the headlines of the tennis world. Julia Avdeeva loves build his points from the baseline and has a decent overall game on the court. Challenge the world number 3, is a gigantic task but do you know that she loves to reproduce the style of the world number 2?

“I try to play a little like her” – Coco Gauff’s first-round opponent is a big fan of Aryna Sabalenka

Julia Avdeeva has everything interesting history. She was born in Siberia And his mother was an athlete In do his whole family is athletic. The 21-year-old tennis sensation trained in St. Petersburg for a long time. But now she is training in Germany with a trainer. Once during an interview with a Russian media outlet, Sports,” she said, “My boyfriend is also like a coach.” But who admires Julia Avdeeva in terms of his style of play?

“I really like Aryna Sabalenka. I try to play a little like herI watches a lot of his matches. His example gives me confidence in my game. And in general, there are more examples of tall, active players with tight shots being successful,»Avdeeva. Coco Gauff’s opponent R1 continued by adding“At some point, I also found meaning in it for my game.I try to analyze and see what I can do in a similar style. It would of course be interesting to play with Aryna. But I would like to do it later in the tournament (laughs).» Will Julia Avdeeva be able to mount a firm challenge against Coco Gauff on Monday?