Red light for Lorenzo Sonego in the second round of the “Rio Open”, ATP World Tour 500 tournament with a prize pool of $ 1,815,115 being played on the clay courts of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil (last year it was canceled due to the pandemic), broadcast live and exclusively by SuperTennis, the FIT TV.
The 26-year-old from Turinn.21 ATP (“best ranking” equaled) and sixth seed, protagonist in Buenos Aires where he stopped in the semifinals, after having conceded just two games at his debut serbo Laslo Djere, 56 ATP, who won the title on these fields in 2019, yielded 75 64, in an hour and 41 minutes of playal serbo, Miomir Kecmanovic, 70 ATP, promoted by the qualifiers.
An evening to forget for the Piedmontese, who was leading by 3-2 in the calculation of the precedents with the 22-year-old from Belgrade winner, however, precisely of the last challenge, played in the third round of the Australian Open last month. “Sonny” also got off to a good start (3-0): then the Serbian recorded strokes and patterns and grabbed the blue on 3 all. The balance continued until the eleventh game when Lorenzo, with a couple of free throws too many, conceded the break, and shortly after Kecmanovic secured the first set 7-5.
At the start of the second half Sonego found his serve (two aces in the opening game): then the announced storm arrived on the even one. More than an hour of stop did not help the Turin to clarify his ideas, quite the contrary. At the resumption of the match, the blue paid the duty immediately giving up the joke and was already good at avoiding the double break in the fifth game where he recovered from 0-40. Kecmanovic remained very attentive and concentrated and did not give any chance to return to Lorenzo, who for his part continued to err a little too much: the answer buried on the net on the match-point that closed the speech in favor of the Serbian is emblematic. (6-4).
Sonego was not enough with 5 aces (and no double faults) and 81% of first players in the field with which he obtained 63% of the points: too low the percentage of points won with the second (50%) and above all too much few points obtained in response (29% on the first and 21% on the second of Kecmanovic).
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