Tennis, Miami: Medvedev and Tsitsipas ok. Today Sinner and Fognini chasing the second round

Good first for the top seed of the Miami Open, Daniil Medvedev, who eliminates the former n. 1 in the world Andy Murray. The Russian, on his debut at the Hard Rock Stadium, took an hour and 29 minutes to get rid of the British, beaten 6-4 6-2, and enter the third round. “I think it was a great match”, the words of n. 2 Atp in the post-match. “The first match is never easy, even if you train on the same fields for one or two months”. Regarding the tennis expressed during the day: “I’m happy not to have conceded even a break-point. I tried to take every opportunity that presented itself. I feel I still have room for improvement ”. In the next round, the Spanish Pedro Martinez will be waiting for Medvedev, who in the first two matches eliminated Struff and Garin in sequence.

Tsitsipas fight

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Night falls in Miami and Stefanos Tsitsipas finds himself facing a completely different version of JJ Wolff to whom he only left one game just a month ago in Acapulco. “Always expect me to play the match of life. He has nothing to lose in these situations ”, the words of the young but wise Greek who suffered the reaction of the American in the second set. “I know perfectly well how to handle these situations, speaking from experience. Letting go and relaxing a bit helped me to get the victory ”. Stoic in Tsitsipas’s attitude that with a 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-1 arrives at what promises to be another tough battle with the Australian Alex De Minaur.

Other results

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No problem for the Top 10 Hubert Hurkacz, who defeated Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech 7-6 (5) 6-2 in the minimum of halves. Now for the Pole there will be seeded n.29 Aslan Karatsev, who got rid of Humbert 7-5 6-2. Even Carlo Alcaraz, winner of the match against the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics, passed the test of the debut, which could have been insidious. The Spanish Next Gen beat his opponent in two quick sets with a score of 6-3 6-2 and in the next round he will find the Croatian Marin Cilic, who has left only three games to Popyrin (6-0 6-3) . The two young Canadians Felix Ausger Aliassime (no. 9 Atp) and Denis Shapovalov (no. 14 Atp) do not pass the round, eliminated by Kecmanovic 6-4 6-2 and Harris 6-3 6-4.

Italians in the field

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Today it will be the turn of Jannik Sinner and Fabio Fognini to take the field again to win a place in the round of 16. The South Tyrolean, who defends the final reached last year, will be involved in the challenge with the Spaniard n.19 of the world ranking Pablo Carreno Busta, on the Butch Buchholz field (about 9 pm expected start). Between the two there is only one precedent that saw the Spaniard triumph in three sets in the quarter-finals of the Rotterdam tournament in 2020. For the Ligurian there will instead be the exuberant Nick Kyrgios in a blockbuster challenge, which will be staged in all probability not before 19 Italian. Only one precedent between the two players, played in 2018 at the Miami ATP, with Kyrgios who won against the blue in two sets. The ATP Masters 1000 in Miami is an exclusive of Sky Sport and will be broadcast live starting from 4 pm on the Sky Sport Tennis, Sky Sport Uno and Sky Sport Action channels.