A biddder and crouched Flavio gives in two sets to Munar, nothing to do for Luca and Mattia against the most quoted Perricard and Machac. Outside Shelton by surprise
Day to forget for Italy at the Shanghai Masters 1000. All three blues in the field have been eliminated. Outside Flavio Cobolli, Mattia Bellucci and Luca Nardi, with defeats that have a different specific weight.
Cobolli
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Cobolli suffered the humidity and in general it did not seem in shape, with ailments that do not allow him to perform as he knows. The Roman, number 22 in the world, lost in two sets against the Spaniard Munar (7-5 6-1 the score). Many, too many mistakes from Flavio, who appeared really tired, with a clear collapse in the second set. In the first, Cobolli however fought until 6-5, when he suffered the break who in fact did not only end the partial, but also the game, with a last truly horrendous game, where Cobolli really was wrong everything that can be made mistakes. In the second there was no game, with the blue who really risked the Bagel.
Nardi and Bellucci
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Nothing to do also for Luca Nardi, n. 88 in the world, which lost with a score of 6-3 7-6 (4) by Giovanni Mpesh Perricard (n. 37 in the world). The Italian defended himself well, against a more solid player (for now). First set decided by a break at the sixth game in favor of the Frenchman, while in the second we arrived at the tie break but there Perricard was good and cold in the moments that count: after all, very few players play many tie breaks like him. Bellucci, number 64 of the world ranking, surrendered in two sets to the Czech Thomas Machac, number 22 ATP, with a score of 6-3 6-4. Fun also fun, the one between the two, with a pair of Bellucci’s highlights who sent the Chinese audience into visible, including a twener of a very valuable workmanship, with the point then closed with a deadly acceleration of straight.
The big names
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As for the other big names, Surprise defeat of Ben Shelton, number 6 of the world, who lost 6-2 6-4 against the revived David Goffin. With all due respect for the Belgian, it was seen how the shoulder of “big ben” is not yet in place, given that the ball went half the usual in the whole match. It is true that at the Turin Finals there is a month, but the time to recover, for Shelton, is not very much. Debut also for Novak Djokovic: the series head number 4, with a lot of rust on him, managed to beat, in one of the first “long-lived” rounds of history (75 years in two) Marin Cilic, with the score of 7-6 (2) 6-4. For the Serbian the way to get in shape is still long.
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