00:00Two-time Roland Garros finalist, Kasparud is right at home on the clay and came to Paris in good form
00:07after reaching the Italian Open final.
00:09His first opponent, Roman Safioulin, has dropped out of the world's top 100 and earned his spot in round one
00:16after coming through qualifying.
00:44His forehand is true, but the break is a two-time Roland Garros finalist. A 2-1 lead early on
00:51day two in Paris.
00:5838 minutes, 12 of them in the opening game. That's how quickly Kasparud runs through the final seven as he
01:06takes the opening set in style. 6-2 for the two-time runner-up.
01:20And it's all Kasparud down the stretch of this tie break.
01:236-2 for the two.
01:44And Kasparud finally has the two sets in that lead he was coveting. And this bodes well for the Norwegian.
01:59Wow. Okay then. We're seeing the manufacturing of the greatest comeback ever.
02:10And that missed.
02:13Renaud Lichtenstein will come down and take a gander. It was called out.
02:27Now Roman Safioulin finds himself to the lead in set number three.
02:39Well, we'll see if that's a possibility. But Ruud, a slow walk to the chair.
02:44And he's worked for wear in two hours and 48 minutes. I'm not sure he can seek solace or not.
02:50We'll find out.
02:56And Safioulin is the beneficiary of a listless start from Kasparud. I mean, look at the way he's walking to
03:05the chair.
03:05And I'm not... I'm not even sure he knows exactly what's going on at the moment.
03:14And this doesn't seem an injury, Kevin.
03:17No.
03:18This seems medical. It's just maybe a bit of sunstroke.
03:22But...
03:34Kasparud finds himself bageled in the fourth set, but that's to his liking. It seems that was the strategy all
03:39along.
03:40As a Norwegian. He'll be dragged to a fifth set. Five match points and nothing to show for Victor yet.
04:02And how's that for a burst of speed?
04:05Solzmuenbaum, a synergy is back. A rejuvenated pass for Ruud.
04:20And Kasparud will try his hand to finish off this contest with a sixth match point.
04:35Now their second meeting was a bizarre encounter on the Terabitua Roland Garros.
04:41The battle of attrition is over. And the victor is Kasparud in five sets.
04:47Three hours, 55 minutes to find his way to the winner's circle and advance the round of 64.
04:57I was close to being on the way home, honestly. And in the end of the third and fourth set,
05:04I felt quite horrible.
05:06And dizzy and not... It was really hard to see the ball. I think my body temperature was too high.
05:12I was not able to cool it down with the temperature here today.
05:16So luckily, I was able to just put myself, give myself some time to breathe in the fourth set.
05:24See if I can kind of calm down, let the cramps, let the high temperature kind of ease off.
05:30And luckily, I was able to. And yeah, it was a really tough, tough match.
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