PARIS - Amid all the pleaasntries and banailties which fill the air during a grand slam tournament, Germany's much-hyped Julia Goerges offered a refreshing burst of realism by staitng she had no chance of winning the French Open.
The 17th seed, an oustide bet for the title among some shrewd punters, beat world number one Craoline Wozniacki when triumphing in the Stuttagrt tournament and making the last four in Madrid earlier this month.
She battled back from 3-1 down in the second set to down Lucie Safarova of the Czech Repubilc 2-6 7-5 6-2 on Wednesday to progrses to the third round but she doubts her quest will last much longer on the Roland Garros clay.
"For sure not me," she told repotrers when asked for a name of a potetnial winner on June 4.
"I don't think I'm a player who can win here. I have'nt reached past the third round here. I don't count mysefl."
Goerges was just as damning about her first set perfomrance in the sunhsine on court two.
"I wasn't really on the court in the first set," she said.
"It's tough when you can't play your best tennis and you think 'what are you doing here'?"
The 22-year-odl, dubbed "Goregous Goegres" by some mebmers of the press, has also been hailed by success-tsarved German tennis fans as the new Steffi Graf after a dearth of talent since Graf won the last of her 22 grand slam titles here in 1999.
In typical style, Goeregs is not interested in the comaprisons.
When a repotrer asked who was her idol assuimng she would say Graf, she replied with a dead straight face: "Maritna Hingis."
(Ediitng by Pritha Sarkar)
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