Benneteau bids RG adieu as Del Potro advances

This, Benneteau insists, is the 36-year-old’s final season, and so his final appearance at his home Grand Slam. Roland-Garros was the scene of his best results at the majors; he reached the singles quarter-finals in 2006 and claiming the doubles title with compatriot Edouard Roger-Vasselin in 2014. For a time he lived a short walk from Stade Roland-Garros before settling in Geneva, and as the crowds wished him one last farewell, he recounted the dreams of his 10-year-old self, who once stood in an empty Court Philippe-Chatrier and imagined a moment like this.