Sometimes these lead to not adventures, but revelations from Cinder, who is quick to tell his biography to his new friend in the second full story, “The Tower of Babel,” which recounts Cinder’s origin during the building of that fabled structure.Īs an origin, it doesn’t explain everything, only how Cinder’s apparent immortality started, and many of the other tales he passes onto Ezra just adds more mystery as to how he gets in the situations he does. This first full story is my favorite of the bunch, an epic that is unique in its mysterious plot elements and atmospheric weirdness, evocative of the time the story was created but with a universal quality that maintains fascination.Įzra and his new friend Mort Cinder contend with other strange situations, often brought about by Ezra’s acquisition of some antiquity. But the macabre story begins to insinuate itself on Ezra’s own life through an antiquarian coincidence, and Ezra is visited by groups of strange skeletal men who lurk eerily and lead to Cinder’s resurrection and the secret of the so-called Leaden-Eyed Men. Cinder arrives in the narrative from a distance in the next story, a murderer who has been hanged, which Ezra reads about in a newspaper. The bottom half of the men's draw had already opened up after world number two Daniil Medvedev was knocked out in the first round by Brazil's Thiago Seyboth Wild.We aren’t introduced to the character Mort Cinder at first, but rather his sidekick, the antiquarian Ezra Winston in a light horror story in which mysterious hieroglyphics bring strange visions. Ruud will next face Zhang Zhizhen who became the first Chinese man to make the last 32 since 1937 with a 7-6 (7/3), 6-3, 6-4 win over Argentine qualifier Thiago Agustin Tirante. The Norwegian fourth seed was pushed hard by his 129th-ranked opponent but clinched a 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 success. Last year's men's runner-up Casper Ruud booked his place in the third round with a four-set win over battling Italian qualifier Giulio Zeppieri. Kazakh fourth seed Rybakina converted three of the 10 break points she carved out and fired 30 winners past 18-year-old Noskova. World number four and Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina racked up her 30th win of the year by defeating Czech teenager Linda Noskova 6-3, 6-3. Zverev, who was taken off court in a wheelchair in that 2022 tie, buried the misery with a confident 6-4, 6-2, 6-1 win over Alex Molcan. One year after suffering a season-ending ankle ligament injury in the semi-final against Rafael Nadal, Germany's Alexander Zverev made a winning return to Court Philippe Chatrier. Justine Henin was the last woman to win back-to-back Roland Garros titles when she lifted her third in a row and fourth in total in 2007.
The Polish star could lose her world number one ranking for the first time in over a year next week if she fails to lift a fourth Grand Slam singles title. World number one Swiatek, who turned 22 on Wednesday, will face China's Wang Xinyu on Saturday for a place in the second week. Swiatek maintained her bid to become the first woman to successfully defend the French Open title in 16 years by cruising into the third round with a 6-4, 6-0 win over American Claire Liu. We'll have to see who does it better," added Andreeva, the youngest player in the third round since a 15-year-old Sesil Karatantcheva made the quarter-finals in 2005.
The 19-year-old Gauff, the runner-up to Iga Swiatek last year, defeated Julia Grabher of Austria 6-2, 6-3.
Andreeva, ranked at 143 and making her Grand Slam debut after coming through the qualifiers, will face Coco Gauff in the next round.
0 kommentar(er)
