Match interrupted for ten minutes, then taken up without television images. At the next Matteo will face one between Tiafoe and Muller
Matteo Arnaldi has no intention of stopping after the great victory against Novak Djokovic. In the Masters 1000 in Madrid the blue continues its journey by beating the Bosnian Damir Dzmuhur in the third round. A 6-3 6-4, reached after a brief interruption for a black out that seems to have hit the tournament of the Spanish capital, which allows the current number 44 of the world to conquer the round of 16 for the third time in a career in a 1000 tournament, after Miami and Montreal last year. In the fourth round the Sanremo tennis player will face the winner of the challenge between Frances Tiafoe and Alexandre Muller.
The match
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The euphoria for the victory against Novak Djokovic is overcome, but confidence is not. Against Dzumhur Arnaldi still shows off his tennis, passing from the defensive to the offensive phase with extreme ease. In the first part he risks something, with 12 unformed errors, but when the situation is complicated the level raises. On the 2-2 he cancels two break balls, then he conquers one in the next game, without exploiting it. Arrived on 4-3, Dzumhur misses and grants two break balls: Matteo tears the service thanks to an excellent reverse response and closes the partial 6-3. Errors condemn the 32 -year -old from Sarajevo also at the beginning of a second set. Matteo flies on 2-0, cancels a break ball in a complicated game and also fights on 3-2. Then it causes an interruption of electricity, the match between Arnaldi and Dzumhur, like the one between Dimitrov and Fearnley, was interrupted for about ten minutes. Upon returning, always in the technological darkness, it is Matteo who put an end to a third round.