The Latest: Garcia rides rowdy crowd to 4th round in Paris
PARIS (AP) — The Latest from the French Open (all times local):
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There were shouts of “Bravo!” and “Merci!” filling the arena, fans in facemasks jumping up and down and an atmosphere sufficiently rowdy to forget how the coronavirus has taken huge bites out of crowd sizes at this year’s French Open when Caroline Garcia beat 16th-seeded Elise Mertens 1-6, 6-4, 7-5.
Garcia rode the partisan home support to advance to the fourth round and then told the crowd “there are not many of you but you make as much noise as when it’s full. I don’t understand.”
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