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No. 56 Magda Linette stunned No. 6 seed Ons Jabeur, bouncing the Tunisian star in the first round of the French Open Sunday. The Polish underdog outlasted Jabeur in the two-and-a-half-hour battle, notching a 3-6, 7-6(4), 7-5 three-set win. Linette was only 2-16 against Top 10 opponents heading into Sunday’s contest, falling to Jabeur in the third round of the French Open last year. The unseeded Pole played clean tennis to overcome the No. 6 seed, registering 35 unforced errors to Jabeur’s 47. Jabeur has been dominant on dirt up until Sunday’s upset, winning a tour-leading 17 matches on clay in 2022. “I am just happy I managed to fight for every single point,” said Linette following the match, acknowledging the challenge Jabeur presented on clay. Linette now advances to the second round, where she will face the winner of Martina Trevisan and Harriet Dart.

When we talk about young talents, it is certain that we can not skip Hyeon Chung, a young Korean tennis player.  Hyeon is another young player in the series who is very talented and who has already shown that he expects great results in his career. Hyeon was born in Suwon, South Korea where he currently lives. He was born on 19th May 1996. His Career High Singles Ranking is 44 on 11 September 2017.  JUNIOR CAREER:  On junior ITF tournaments, Hyeon appeared in mid-2010, where he played 3 home tournaments, he was partly successful. At the first tournament he played in KangWon-Do, he passed the qualifications but was defeated in the first round of his compatriot Kim, Ho Gak in three sets after a great fight of 3-6,7-6,5-7. In the other two tournaments in the same year, he failed to record the win but showed a fine game and showed his full potential. In 2011, the first tournament he played in Mexico was at X Abierto Internacional Juvenil Casablanca San Angel (...

Jared Donaldson is an professional tennis player from USA. He was born at Providence, Rhode Island. His coaches are Jan-Michael Gambill and Mardy Fish, former professional tennis player. He was born on October 9, 1996. His favourite surface is clay.  Junior career: Jared started to play tennis when he was 4 years old. His Career High Combined Ranking on ITF Juniors was 113 on January 14, 2013. First tournament on ITF Juniors level, Jared played in June 2015 on Bank of Bermuda Foundation ITF Junior Circuit Tournament in Pembroke, Bermuda ( G5 ). Jared performed in the qualifications and easily passed two games and so went into the main draw of the tournament. He scored 3 good wins in this tournament but was defeated by Daniel Shebshayevich (USA) in two tiebreaks in a semifinal match. During the summer of the same year, he also performed at the U16 category tournaments, but already in August 2011 he went to the new junior tournament at St.Lucia ( G5 ).He was de...

DENIS SHAPOVALOV is a professional tennis player from Canada. He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, the son of Viktor and Tessa Shapovalov. Denis`s family moved from Israel to Canada, before Denis`s first birthday. His career High Singles Ranking of No.49 on October 23, 2017. His coaches are his mother Tessa and Martin Laurendeau. Junior career: Denis had a lot of success during his entire junior career, but he failed to reach the first place in the junior rankings. Denis began playing j unior tournaments  when he was 13 years old when he played his first tournament in Canada at the G5 Tournament in Burlington. He was defeated in the first round of Wilson (USA) in three sets. And the next tournament he played in Burlington in April 2013 when he played 3 great matches and reached the quarter-finals where he was defeated by Beran (CAN) 6-3,2-6,1-6 . During 2013, Denis continues with junior tournaments and plays one semifinal and one quarter finals on tournaments in Canada. ...