Us Open, Fognini comes out with Pospisil. Cecchinato is also out

The blue gives in to the tie-break after 3 hours and 22 of play. Cecchinato also eliminated by the 18-year-old American Svajda, n ° 716 Atp, on the scoreboard thanks to a wild card

In the end, the biggest blue binge in the history of the United States Open ended for Italy with a negative sign: only four wins compared to six defeats for the ten Italian records at the start in the men’s singles (all in the upper part of the scoreboard and therefore all in the race yesterday) and a success without defeat in the women’s singles.

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Marathon

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To go forward were Matteo Berrettini (7-6 7-6 6-3 to the French Jeremy Chardy), Jannik Sinner (6-4 6-2 4-6 6-2 to the Australian Max Purcell), Lorenzo Musetti (6- 7 6-4 6-1 6-3 to the American Emilio Nava) and the heroic Andreas Seppi (2-6 7-5 6-4 2-6 7-6 to the Hungarian Marton Fucsovic) with a lot of five match points canceled in an endless marathon. Salvatore Caruso (6-1 6-1 5-7 6-3 from Kei Nishikori), Lorenzo Sonego (6-7 7-5 7-6 7-6 from the German Oscar Otte), Stefano Travaglia ( 6-4 7-5 7-6 by the French Corentin Moutet) and Gianluca Mager (4-6 6-3 7-5 2-6 7-6 by the Australian Jordan Thompson) who preceded, in the Italian night, the defeats of Fabio Fognini and Marco Cecchinato.

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Black out

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The Ligurian, with a two-set advantage, was recovered and beaten at the tie break of the fifth set by the Canadian Vasek Pospisil who ended up prevailing 2-6 3-6 6-1 6-3 7-6. Three hours and eighteen minutes of a score that the Ligurian knows by heart, between ups and downs, between moments of pause and hope, of games played with a knife between the teeth and inexplicable blackouts. A substantially quick, fast match, dominated by the blue with two first sets played with great character and personality: then, however, that healthy flame of madness that keeps Fognini alive was suddenly extinguished, only to suddenly rekindle in the fifth set with lively signs of hope for a substantially sweet flavor finish. Fabio returns to play which is a pleasure to see him, he starts with the break, flies to 3-0 and confirms again for the 4-1 after having saved a delicate ball from the counter-break. The game is decided in Fabio’s service rounds, but Fognini accuses a new pass and the score quickly returns to balance. The blue has the advantage of serving first, salt 5-4 and 6-5. Here he arrives three times two points from the match but fails to respond to the serve of Pospisil who slips four points in a row grabbing the tie break. Here the Canadian finds the serve, Fabio instead goes out after the lucky volley of the Canadian who goes out on the line. The mini break decides the dispute, two winning services by Pospisil are worth as credits to a final set that could have ended 6-1 for Fognini but which instead rewards Pospisil for 7-6.

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Sensational

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But much more sensational and heavier in substance appears the defeat of Marco Cecchinato, beaten in four sets by the American Zachary Svajda (number 716 in the ranking, on the scoreboard thanks to a wild card) who overtook him 7-6 5-7 6- 4 6-4. The Sicilian converted only one break point in the whole match, and it was the one that gave him the second set: then, in the key moments, absolute darkness. 12 aces, 6 double fouls, 60% of prime, one break, 65 winners and 31 free errors are fake on Cecchinato’s abacus.

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Trevisan

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First victory ever at the United States Open for Martina Trevisan who overtook the former American top 10 Coco Vandeweghe 6-1 7-5, who fell to number 160 in the WTA ranking. To decide the first fraction were the first games in which the blue first successfully faced three break points and then snatched the serve from rival, confirming the lead up to 4-0. Here Martina missed a ball 5-0, but held up well in the next serving, closing the first fraction with an ace in just 37 minutes of play. At the beginning of the second set Vandeweghe, serving first, took the lead of the game but was unable to break away. At 5-4, 15-40 the American arrived two points from the set twice, but Trevisan held up. On 5 all Vandeweghe lost the beat to zero sending the blue to serve for the match. Martina hesitated, offered her rival three more break points that she saved before exploding all her anger with the final scream, a sign of a more than deserved passage of the round.

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Next round

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On Thursday the four surviving blues in the men’s draw plus Martina Trevisan will be back on track: Andreas Seppi will face the Polish Hubert Hurkacz, Matteo Berrettini instead the French Corentin Moutet, Jannik Sinner the American Zachary Svajda and Lorenzo Musetti the Yankee Reilly Opelka. Martina Trevisan instead will be opposed to the Swiss Belinda Bencic. Today only one blue in the race: it is Jasmine Paolini who on the glorious Louis Armstrong (the stadium that was the main field of the tournament from 1978 to 1996) faces the Belarusian Victoria in the late afternoon (it is the second match starting at 17 Italian) Azarenka, former world number 1 and three-time finalist in the tournament.

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