FILE PHOTO: Tennis - ATP 500 - Hamburg European Open - Am Rothenbaum, Hamburg, Germany - September 27, 2020. Russia's Andrey Rublev celebrates winning the final against Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer
PARIS (Reuters) - The relief was clear for Russian 13th seed Andrey Rublev as he came back from the brink to beat American Sam Querrey in five sets at the French Open on Tuesday.
Trailing by two sets and 5-2 to the big-serving Querrey it seemed as though Rublev was about to suffer a similar first-round fate to his fourth-seeded compatriot Daniil Medvedev.
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