He couldn’t let the opportunity pass and he didn’t. Playing a practically perfect match Lorenzo Sonego broke the pass for the third round of Wimbledonthird Slam of 2022, which is being played on the lawns of the All England Club in London. The British Major does not award points valid for the ATP and WTA rankings this year (as a “retaliation” for the decision of the British Federation not to admit Russian and Belarusian tennis players to tournaments in Great Britain) but offers a record prize pool : £ 40,350,000.
The 27 year old from Turin, 54 in the ranking and 27 in the seeding, after finally beating the American Denis Kudla in five sets, n. 75 ATP, despite a left wrist still in disarray, liquidated 76 (4) 64 64, in exactly two and a half hours of the match, the French left-handed Hugo Gaston, n.66 in the ranking, in his first experience in the main draw of Wimbledon.
The Piedmontese had won in three battled sets both previous ones with the 21-year-old from Toulouse, played in the first round of Montpellier (fast indoor) in 2021 and in the first round of Sydney (hard) last January. First set rather hard with left-handed trajectories and some incredible recoveries that kept the Frenchman in the running who canceled two break points in the second game and three more in the sixth. The Piedmontese is very solid in the service, forced to gain advantages only in the first and eleventh game. He decided the tie-break, balanced up to 4 all: then Lorenzo won the last three points – first winning, drop-shot on the net, oversized recovery of the Frenchman – closing 7 to 4.
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