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Andreas Seppi fails to qualify for Paris tennis

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The Paris Masters is unfortunately already over for Andreas Seppi. © fit bz

Andreas Seppi missed the jump into the main field of the Masters 1000 tournament in Paris-Bercy on Sunday afternoon. The 37-year-old Kalterer had to admit defeat to the Swede Mikael Ymer in the second, decisive qualifying round.

Yesterday, Seppi kicked off the Spaniard Pedro Martinez, number 58 in the world, with 7: 5, 6: 3. Today the world number 98 fought. against the 23-year-old Ymer for a ticket for the main draw. Seppi had won the only duel so far against the tennis star from Stockholm in 2017 in Barcelona, ​​but today he had no chance.

After just under half an hour, Ymer took the first set 6-2. In the second part of the game, Seppi even had to give his service three times to the Swede, who was able to prevail 6-1 after 67 minutes of play.

The next tournament is already on the program

A bitter end for Seppi, who will most likely serve at the home Challenger tournament in Val Gardena the week after next. Jannik Sinner, on the other hand, is already in the main field of Paris-Bercy. The Sesto superstar has a bye in round 1, then the winner from the encounter between Spain’s young talent Carlos Alcaraz (ATP 42) and Pierre-Hugues Herbert (ATP 104) from France is waiting.

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