​After playing against Italy’s Sara Errani, you will be able to withstand almost any test of patience that tennis can throw at you throughout your career. Irina Beg had to endure a lot of “balloons”, balls that forced our athlete to hit from completely unexpected positions. However, everything ended well, and Romania has a representative in the third round of Roland Garros 2023.

Iryna Begu, in the third round of Roland Garros – victory with Sarah Errani, a former finalist in Paris

On court 9, everything is as clear as possible: it is one of the smallest arenas in the complex, it is located between Chatrier and Lenglen (very close to the last mentioned), and the noise is at home here.

In this way, a soundtrack was provided so that the match was largely played under the “cover” of encouragement from Lucas Pouillat (who played Suzanne Lenglen).

After a successful start of the match (3:0 in her favor), Iryna involuntarily got into the rhythm of high and very high balls sent by the Italian. As we said above, the match with Sarah Errani can be tested on patience.

A finalist on clay in Paris (in 2012), Sarah has the necessary experience (36 years) to send the controversy where she likes it most: a game without rhythm, with the famous “balloons” when the ball spins to the end. fluff and with plays that can last up to half a set in other games.

Even the line referees, who had to go around Irina several times, were affected by the Italian’s high balls: our athlete was a little bigger and had to return from behind the fence.

If tennis were figure skating, Sarah would have a lot of trouble passing the class on artistic impression. The other day I wrote about Ons Jabert, a player who really cannot be bored.

Well, Sara is in the opposite category, and Iryna managed to stop the match in time, which could easily have lasted up to three and a half hours of play, had it gone to the deciding stage.

Our athlete needed an hour and 12 minutes to qualify (6-3, 6-0) in the third round of Roland Garros.

Iryna, the 27th favorite in Paris, will meet Karolina Mukhova (43 WTA), the Czech is a good player on clay.