Correspondent from Paris
Court Number Six is an adjacent facility to the even larger Court Philippe Chatrier of staggering size. Here on Friday, one of Poland’s greatest talents, 17-year-old Tomas Berkita, battled to the biggest success of his career to date – the Roland Garros final. The Pole, ranked 1191 in the ATP rankings, was not a candidate in the match against Italian Lorenzo Carbone (705 tennis players). The 18-year-old from Sardinia is a completely different world of tennis compared to the Pole. The much shorter Italian (about 170 cm tall) brings a defensive style to the field. He likes exchanges “to the point of exhaustion”, which is not our tennis player’s strongest point, which in turn depends on his excellent physical condition (he is 191 cm tall). Its element is powerful transmissions (over 220 km/h) and short movements.
In the previous days, Berkita, whom I and several other journalists from Poland met on our way to training at the Jan Boyen facility, admitted that he did not have any expectations for himself regarding the tournament in Paris. It’s no secret that the 17-year-old’s playing style has more advantages on hard courts and on grass.
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