Alexander Zverev lost his opening game at the ATP tournament in Monte Carlo – and put the next neck strike despite great fights.
The top German tennis player defeated the Italian Matteo Berrettini 6: 2, 3: 6, 5: 7 in the second round of the important Masters tournament on Tuesday. In the first round, Zverev, as the top player, had a walk -through.
Since its final defeat at the Australian Open in January, the world ranking of Zverev has been in the form crisis, no longer got beyond the quarter -finals. In Buenos Aires and Acapulco, the second round ended, even in the first in Indian Wells.
Good game in Monte Carlo
Now Zverev in Monte Carlo went home again without a sense of achievement. The duel with the world ranking 34. Berrettini had a high level of route and was fiercely contested, especially in the third set. At 4: 5, Zverev Berrettini took the serve again, but immediately lost his serve game again.
Berrettini meets his compatriot Lorenzo Musetti or Jiri Lehecka from the Czech Republic either in the round of 16.