Start of the second rounds of the tournament ATP 250 from Cagliari with in particular the entry into the running of Taylor Fritz (seed n ° 2) and Nikoloz Basilashvili (seed n ° 4). The other two encounters will involve Egor Gerasimov and Aljaz Body as well as Jan-Lennard Struff at Liam Broady.
Doha – Basilashvili takes the title
Find the table of the Cagliari tournament here
Basilashvili 1st lap or beautiful course?
That Nikoloz Basilashvili will be on the court this Wednesday in Sardinia? Since tennis resumed last August, the Georgian has lost fifteen times in the first round of a tournament (winning only three sets out of those fifteen matches) but also made a quarter-final in Antalya at the start of the season. The only clarification for him, his title to Doha where he successively beat Roger Federer, Taylor Fritz and Roberto Bautista Agut. Even though he got knocked out in the first round at Dubai and Miami after this title, he showed a better face and level of play than during his post defeats Doha. Opposed to Jozef Kovalik, he will start as favorite even if the Slovakian can hamper him on the ocher surface. The winner will find the winner of the duel between Jan-Lennard Struff – who saved five match points in the first round – and Liam Broady, who won their first ATP clay court match in the previous round.
Fritz to confirm his progress on earth since 2019
Opposed to Andrej Martin, another Slovak, Taylor Fritz will begin its campaign on ocher facing a specialist but largely within its reach. Author of a good start to the season, the American, 30th in the world, will also have to rely on his good results obtained on land in 2019. The only player in Uncle Sam’s country with Tommy Paul present in Europe to play on land this week and next week at Montecarlo, Fritz will aim to do better than in 2019. In case of victory he would find the winner of the match between Egor Gerasimov and Aljaz Body, who beat the Belarusian 6-4, 7-6 at the start of the season at Montpellier.
Wednesday’s program in Cagliari:
Central Field
From 11 am:
[Q] Liam Broady (GBR) – [5] Jan-Lennard Struff (GER)
Egor Gerasimov (BLR) – Alajaz Bedene (SLO)
[4] Nikoloz Basilashvili – [Q] Jozef Kovalik (SVQ)
Not before 5 p.m .:
Andrej Martin (SVQ) – [2] Taylor Fritz (USA)
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