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ROLAND GARROS – Five of the spots in the main draw were decided on Thursday (the originally scheduled day for the final round, but for the Wednesday that pushed a lot of matches back).
So 11 remained, including James Trotter, who represents Japan but has Canadian connections with his girlfriend being Canadian former player Isabelle Boulais, and his coach this week her mother, Patricia Hy-Boulais. He couldn’t pass the final hurdle.
Looking for a spot were two veterans who have been there – 2005 junior champion Marin Cilic and South Africa’s Lloyd Harris. But only one can make it – that was Harris. But it all worked out perfectly because Cilic got in as a lucky loser.
(Paris is six hours ahead of EDT).
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Roland Garros
Qualifying, final round
Friday, May 23, 2025
Final results
(1st-round opponents in brackets)
Nikoloz BASILASHVILI (GEO) def [WC] Geoffrey BLANCANEAUX (FRA) 62 64 ([Q] Henrique Rocha)
Ugo BLANCHET (FRA) def Lukas KLEIN (SVK) 64 75 (Hugo Gaston)
[12] Juan Manuel CERUNDOLO (ARG) def [18] Daniel Elahi GALAN (COL) 64 62 ([32] Alex Michelsen)
[19] Yannick HANFMANN (GER) def Titouan DROGUET (FRA) 64 36 63 ([8] Lorenzo Musetti)
Lloyd HARRIS (RSA) def [8] Marin CILIC (CRO) 63 46 63 ([17] Andrey Rublev)
Benjamin HASSAN (LBN) def James TROTTER (JPN) 62 76 (5) ([Q] Matteo Gigante)
Maximilian MARTERER (GER) def Federico ARNABOLDI (ITA) 64 61 (Adam Walton)
Filip MISOLIC (AUT) def [2] Alexander SHEVCHENKO (KAZ) 64 64 (BU Yunchaokete)
Henrique ROCHA (POR) def Luca VAN ASSCHE (FRA) 63 67 (1) 75 ([Q] Nikoloz Basilashvili)
[WC] Clement TABUR (FRA) def Filip Cristian JIANU (ROU) 64 75 (Corentin Moutet)
[PR] Giulio ZEPPIERI (ITA) def [29] Federico GOMEZ (ARG) 61 64 ([2] Carlos Alcaraz)
Decided Thursday
Matteo GIGANTE (ITA) def [10] Elmer MOLLER (DEN) 63 76 (5) ([Q] Benjamin Hassan)
Kyrian JACQUET (FRA) def. Jurij RODIONOV (AUT) 62 62 (Nuno Borges)
Pablo LLAMAS RUIZ (ESP) def Vilius GAUBAS (LTU) 60 36 62 ([26] Alejandro Davidovich Fokina)
[11] Ethan QUINN (USA) def. [24] Thiago AGUSTIN TIRANTE (ARG) 63 46 76 [10-5] ([16] Grigor Dimitrov)
Albert RAMOS-VINOLAS (ESP) def Andrea COLLARINI (ARG) 62 61 ([7] Casper Ruud)
[LL] Marin CILIC (Flavio Cobolli)
[LL] Elmer MOLLER ([12] Tommy Paul)
[LL] Alexander SHEVCHENKO (Dusan Lajovic)
[LL] Thiago Agustin TIRANTE (Damir Dzumhur)