The second day of the game was not good for Spanish tennis. Masters 1. of Cincinnati (EE.UU.) seeing that the four players who participated were eliminated, including Albert Ramos, which was the last, and the first to fall in the second round.
The Italian Matteo Berrettini, fifth seed, was his executioner by winning 6-7 (5), 6-3 and 7-5 in a second round match that lasted two hours and 20 minutes. The Italian, world No. 8, thus returned to the circuit after losing the final of Wimbledon against Novak Djokovic.
Ramos, 33 years old and 49th in the ranking, was always involved in the game after having achieved the first set that had to be decided in the tiebreaker.
But then he yielded the second and in the third and decisive, the best shots were always from Berrettini, who in the end secured the victory with his best rest from the back of the track.
Before the defeat of Ramos, they had lost three more of their compatriots who started the tournament to play their first round matches.
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The young man Carlos Alcaraz placeholder image, 18, could not enjoy the triumph in his debut in the main draw of the tournament when he lost this Tuesday in two straight sets 6-3 and 7-6 (6) against the Italian Lorenzo Sonego and became the third Spaniard which was eliminated in the first round.
Before, the veteran had also been eliminated Roberto Bautista and the young man Alexander Davidovich.
Bautista Agut, thirteenth seed, was defeated in two straight sets by 6-3 and 6-4 against the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, world number 21.
While another of the young promises of Spanish tennis, Davidovich, number 34 in the world, could not overcome the Hungarian Hubert Hurkacz, ninth seed, who won it 6-1, 6-7 (3) and 6-1.
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The four eliminations left Spanish tennis with only one representative in the tournament, Pablo Carreño, seventh seed, who went directly to the second round, in which he will face the German Dominik Koepfer, in which it will be the second duel, with a 1-0 advantage, for the bronze medalist at Tokyo 2020.
Results (2nd round):
Benoit Paire (Fra) a Denis Shapovalov (Can / 6) 6-3, 4-6, 7-5
Matteo Berrettini (Ita/5) a Albert Ramos (ESP) 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-5
First round:
Alexander Bublik (Kaz) a Marcos Giron (USA) 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
Grigor Dimitrov (Bul) and Roberto Bautista (ESP / 13) 6-3, 6-4
Hubert Hurkacz (Pol/9) bat Alejandro Davidovich (ESP) 6-1, 6-7 (3), 6-1
Marin Cilic (Cro) to Aslan Karatsev (Russian) 7-5, 6-3
Gaël Monfils (Fra) to Dusan Lajovic (Ser) 7-6 (0), 6-2
John Isner (USA) a Cameron Norrie (GBR) 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4
Reilly Opelka (USA) and Corentin Moutet (Fra) 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-4
Frances Tiafoe (USA) a Ugo Humbert (Fra) 7-5, 7-6 (9)
Tommy Paul (USA) to Christian Garín (Chl / 16) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
Lorenzo Sonego (Ita) a Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) 6-3, 7-6 (6)
Sebastian Korda (USA) and Laslo Djere (Ser) 6-4, 6-4
