Wawrinka, current number 173 in the ATP ranking and who has not played an official match since March of last year, has been confirmed by the organization of the Parisian Grand Slam, where he already won in 2015.
Next March will be exactly one year since the last official game of Stan Wawrinkathe first round of Dubai ATP 500 in view of Lloyd Harris. Since then, a double operation on his left foot in the aforementioned month of March and later in June, has kept him away from the tracks until now.
However, it seems that his return is closer than ever, since the organization of Roland Garros has confirmed the intention of Lausanne to compete in the second Grand Slam of the year, which will take place at the end of May. As reported ESPN Sports on his website, the most logical thing is for Wawrinka to attend a preparatory tournament beforehand on the European clay court tour, among which is that of Genevain his native country and that he has already lifted consecutively in 2016 and 2017.
His idyll with Paris
Well known by all the great yield reaped by ‘Stanimal‘ in the big tournaments, and at Roland Garros he wasn’t far behind either. The Helvetian has a record of 44 wins by 15 defeats on the Parisian clay, highlighting his extraordinary performance in the year 2015when he added his second ‘great‘Bending the Swiss Roger Federerto French Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and to Serbian Novak Djokovic on his way to the title.
Apart from the trophy won seven years ago, in 2016 Y 2017 had a double duel against the British Andy Murray in the semifinals, with the Scotsman winning in the first and the Swiss in the second to later fall to the Spanish Reef Nadal in the grand finale.
His time in the edition of 2019. Two years after his knee operation that almost permanently removed him from tennis. That year, Wawrinka reached the quarterfinals. He had a fierce confrontation in the round of 16 against the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas and bowed out in four tight sets against Federer a round later.
