Sometimes there is no disguising sheer happiness, nor any reason to.
Two-time Roland-Garros semi-finalist Timea Bacsinszky has endured two years of persistent and assorted injury misery; and the Swiss was so delighted at the end of her 6-3, 6-4 first qualifying-round victory over Fanny Stollar that she leapt into the air and let out a prolonged shriek of: “Allez!”
The last time Bacsinszky wielded a competitive racquet on the Paris clay was on the great stage of Court Philippe-Chatrier in 2017, when she succumbed in the last-four to eventual champion Jelena Ostapenko.
