• In the Italian city of Florence, the brightest battle of the day was played late in the evening, when French tennis player Corentin Mutet (ATP 69th), who was previously involved in scandals, played back two match points, defeating 20-year-old Italian Flavio Cobolli, born in Florence, 4:6, 7:5, 6:4 (ATP 164th), who played one of his first matches in the main ATP tournaments.
• In the first part of the game, the initiative belonged to the home team, who managed to win the opponent’s service games three times in the first set, including two of them without losing a single game. At the end of the second set, with the score 5:4 in favor of Kobolli and serving 15-40 in Mutė, the French athlete eliminated two match points, being superior in seven games in a row and himself in the next game breaking opponent’s serve.
• 23-year-old Mutė won seven (!) of Kobolli’s 16 service games during the match. For his actions in the “Challenger” tournament held in the French city of Orleans Mutė, who was fined 10,000 US dollars, will face the winner of the match between Aleksandar Bublik (ATP 43rd) and Kristians Garin (ATP 81st) in the second round.
• Italian Mateo Berretini (ATP 16), seeded second in Florence, will face Spaniard Roberto Carbaez Baena (ATP 80) in the round of 16, who defeated (6:2, 6:1) the currently highest ranked Colombian tennis player Daniel Elahi Galan (ATP 71) in the first round .).
• Aslan Karatsev (ATP 39th) broke a streak of five losses, as his opponent from the Netherlands Tallon Greekspor (ATP 54th) withdrew from the further fight when the result was 6:3, 2:1 in favor of the Russian.
• In Florence, the Canadian Félix Auger-Aljasim (ATP 13) is seeded as the number one.
• At the Gijon tournament in Spain, only the Austrian Dominic Thiem (ATP 165), who was in the top three of the world ranking a few years ago, was superior in 12 out of 14 games. torn to pieces (6:2, 6:0) the experienced Portuguese Joao Souza (ATP 64).
• The 16-year-old Spaniard Martins Landalus, who triumphed in the boys’ tournament of the US Open Tennis Championship, made his debut on the ATP tour. who capitulated in the first round of Gijón (3:6, 0:6) in front of fifth-seeded American Tommy Paul (ATP 30th).
• Brazilian Thiago Monteiro (ATP 65), who defeated (6:4, 7:5) French tennis player Benjamin Bonzi (ATP 67) in the round of 16, will play the Spaniard Pablo Carreno-Busta (ATP 15th), who is the nominal second number of the tournament.
Used sources:
https://www.atptour.com/en/scores/c…
https://www.atptour.com/en/scores/c…
