Diane Parry and the French Open crowd send Amanda Anisimova out of Roland Garros

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PARIS — Amanda Anisimova had pretty low expectations coming into the French Open. She met them Saturday, as she fell to home hope Diane Parry, who beat her 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(3) in a match that was close until the tiebreak, when Anisimova entirely lost control of her groundstrokes.

On a hot afternoon on Court Philippe-Chatrier, Parry, 23, tortured Anisimova with high-bouncing forehands and sliced backhands. Both kept the ball well out of Anisimova’s strike zone, drawing dozens of errors from the 24-year-old American, a two-time Grand Slam finalist last year. When it was over, Parry had her first top-10 win, and some of the chaos that has taken over the men’s draw had seeped into the women’s.

Anisimova was always going to come into this match cold. She has been managing an injury to her left wrist the past two months. The French Open was her first clay-court tournament of the season, and her first two matches in Paris didn’t give her much chance to play herself into form.

She met little resistance in the first round against Tiantsoa Sarah Rakotomanga Rajaonah, a French wild card. In the second round, her opponent, Julia Grabner of Austria, retired after Anisimova won the first set 6-0. That gave her a little more than two hours of matchplay on clay before one of the toughest Grand Slam tests: Playing a match as a favorite against a French player on the country’s biggest court.

The French crowd did all it could to rile Anisimova. As she tossed the ball in the first set for a second serve, what sounded like a fake sneeze emerged from the crowd. Anisimova caught her toss, but then double-faulted and lost the game.

Anisimova came back to win the second set, and she unleashed some of her best strokes of an error-strewn day after Parry broke her midway through the third. But with Parry serving at 4-5 and Anisimova two points from the match, she committed two more errors, and Parry smacked her 10th ace of the day, to even the score at 5-5.

From there, the match became a test of whether Anisimova could end points quickly or Parry could extend them. Anisimova got to within two points of the finish again, with Parry serving at 5-6, but then muffed a short, low backhand long. On the next point, she went long on a forehand, and on they went to a tiebreak.

Parry got out in front from the start, when Anisimova missed on a forehand and never relinquished the lead. Anisimova shanked a serve at 3-6 to give Parry a comfortable cushion, and then her 55th and 56th unforced errors, one a forehand crosscourt, the other a forehand down the line, gave Parry six match points.

She only needed one, drawing Anisomova in with a drop shot then blasting a backhand at her from close range. When Anisomova’s volley flew long, the Chatrier throng roared.

This article originally appeared in The Athletic.

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