Jannik beats Gasquet 6-3 5-7 6-2 and now he will face Lorenzo who beat Karatsev 6-2 3-6 6-2. Vavassori instead salutes: Bautista Agut wins 6-3 6-4
There will be the awaited blue derby in the second round of the ATP 500 in Halle between Jannik Sinner and Lorenzo Sonego, who both won their debut match in the German tournament on grass. Sinner, seeded number 4, defeated a bit suffering, as was predictable, an old fox like Richard Gasquet, who has always played very, very well on the green and who is 37 years old continues to do so. The South Tyrolean won in three sets (6-3 5-7 6-2) a match that could have been closed very well in two, but Jannik was a little distracted on the 6-5 of the second fraction, when with an unfortunate round of joke he got broken in a rather bloody way. He hasn’t yet seemed like a Sinner in a state of grace but there are positive signs, such as the 40 winners drawn, with 10 aces, against 11 free errors. The percentages of the first remain low (51% with 79% of points won however) but some improvement can be glimpsed.
sonego ok
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Well, very well, Lorenzo Sonego, who managed to get the better of an always complicated opponent like Aslan Karatsev (6-2 3-6 6-2 the final result), the Russian, No. 45 in the world, had been rescued in the scoreboard in place of the injured Nick Kyrgios and was leading 3-1 in the previous matches against the Turinese, but today the blue, 28 years old, showed his consistency and his splendid form, which are doing him so much good in recent months. And it was precisely Sonego’s continuity that was the key to the match: the statistics show how the Piedmontese essentially controlled the match, with 15 aces, 75% of points won with the first and only 7 unforced errors conceded, while Karatsev did not he never managed to give continuity to his game, committing 6 double faults and 21 free faults, except in the second set, but evidently it wasn’t enough for him.
vavassori ko
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Three Azzurri on the field today in Halle, the last was Andrea Vavassori, lucky loser in Altmaier’s place, and who was defeated by a grass expert like the Spanish Roberto Bautista Agut (a semifinal at Wimbledon for him, in 2019 , lost against Djokovic), in two sets, 6-3 6-4.
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