Nice victory for Matteo in three sets: in the quarter-finals there will be the challenge with Lorenzo, who overcame Nagal. Fabio surprisingly eliminates the number 1 seed in the Moroccan tournament. Darderi show in Houston: Cerundolo eliminated
Confirmations. Beautiful, long-awaited confirmations. Matteo Berrettini follows up the clear victory in the first round against Alexander Shevchenko (6-2 6-1), overcomes Jaume Munar in three sets (6-4 4-6 6-3) and reaches the quarter-finals in the 250 clay tournament match in Marrakech, where an intriguing derby with Lorenzo Sonego will be staged. Both have recently separated (the Turin native very recently) separated from the coaches with whom they grew up, Vincenzo Santopadre and Gipo Arbino: the comfort zone is behind them, the road will not necessarily be downhill, but the clay season is starting well for both. Now comes the fourth match between the two, the first on a surface other than grass: the score is 2-1 in favor of Berrettini.
THE MATCH
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Matteo is fine. This is the best news, besides obviously the result: the movements are good, the forehand hurts even on clay, the serve is reliable and comes to the rescue in complicated moments. After leaving only three games to Shevchenko, the Italian overcomes a clay specialist like Munar: the Spaniard is number 73 in the world, he is not going through a great moment but he is still an uncomfortable opponent. In the first set and a half, the blue player controls the exchange as soon as he can (especially with the inside-out forehand), serves well, and is lively on the court. After closing the first 6-4, in the second Matteo breaks serve in the third game and has three points for the double break: he doesn’t exploit them and then loses the serve to zero, 4-3 for the opponent from a potential 1-4 . Tarnish for the blue, Munar grows: 13 consecutive points for Jaume. And in the tenth game, in response, the Spaniard closes the set: 6-4. Well done to Matteo in reacting in the third set: two unused break points in the third game, in the seventh and ninth games Berrettini breaks the serve twice and closes 6-3.
SONEGO’S COMEBACK
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The day opened with the great comeback against Nagal by Sonego, in the first match after the separation with the historic coach Arbino: after losing the first set clearly (1-6), Lorenzo reacted by closing the second 6-3 partial and 6-4 the third, in almost two and a half hours of fighting. For the Turin native it is the fifth victory in this complicated start to 2024. Nothing to be done, however, for Flavio Cobolli: the 2002 class was defeated by the Russian Pavel Kotov, an opponent beaten in the second round of the Australian Open. The blue lost in two sets, fighting in the second but losing in the tie break: 6-1 7-6.
what sewers!
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The day ended with a great victory for Fabio Fognini: the Ligurian tennis player eliminated the number 1 seed, Laslo Djere, in three sets (7-6 2-6 6-4). The Ligurian will play a quarter-final match for the first time in 2024 and will face Kotov. Fognini needed six match points to close the game: thanks to this success he is virtually number 91 in the world.
super darderi
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Also from the other side of the world there is great news for Italian tennis: Luciano Darderi, in the 250 in Houston, defeated Francisco Cerundolo, seeded number 2, in a hard-fought match that ended 6-4 2-6 7-6 in two and a half hours. The third set was a typical clay court battle, with four consecutive breaks between the fifth and eighth games. For the Italian-Argentine it is the most important victory of his career, against the world number 23: he is in the quarter-finals for the third time in this extraordinary start to 2024. Sara Errani also did well, beating the Spaniard in three sets Sorribes Tormo in Bogota.
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2024-04-03 23:08:52
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