Lto Spanish resistance Albert Ramos propelled him to victory against the Italian Lorenzo Musetti, recent champion in Naplesby 1-6, 6-3 and 6-4, and to the second round of the Basel tournament.
Ramos did not decline despite the fact that his rival was only two games away from victory. The Spaniard won after two hours and a quarter of the game, after surviving the 12 aces and the 40 winners of Musetti. Ramos, for his part, was especially brilliant at the net, where he won 26 of the 33 points he played (79%).
In the third set, the transalpine player was 4-1, but the 34-year-old tennis player from Barcelona kept up his style and scored five straight games to consummate victory.
The 20-year-old tennis player from Carrara won the trophy in Naples last Sunday, the second in his history along with the one in Hamburg this year. He arrived in Basel with four consecutive wins and a previous victory against the Spanish this year, in Marrakech.
Ramos, 40 in the ranking and champion in 2022 in Córdoba, his fourth ATP success, straightened out the match after a bad start and won the second set. But in the third game he was again submitted by the transalpine, who accelerated from the third game and took a 4-1 lead.
Albert Ramos threw faith and little by little undermined his rival until he turned the situation around and closed the victory. the spanish will face Kazakh Alexander Bublik in the second round.
Also progressing in the picture was the 19-year-old Dane Holger Runewho beat the Australian Alex de Miaur, seventh favorite, by 6-2 and 7-5. Rune, who won the second title of his career in Stockholm on Sunday after the one in Munich, also achieved this year, added his sixth victory in a row against the oceanic.
The Dane, one of the players with the most future in tennis, took an hour and a half to close the match against De Miaur. In the second round he will face the French Ugo Humbertwho eliminated the American Jenson Brooksby by 6-1 and 6-4. The winner will be measured in quarters against the winner of the duel between Alex Molcan and the rooster Arthur Rinderknech.
On this day of the Basel tournament, the three winners of last week’s men’s circuit tournaments coincide. In addition to Musetti in Naples and Rune in Stockholm, the Canadian Flix Auger Aliassime, who managed to win in Antwerp on Sunday. Toni Nadal’s pupil faces the Swiss Marc Andrea Huesler.
