ATP Munich: Seppi fails in the first round to Zeballos

For the 33-year-old from Kalter, nothing was going well at the beginning. When the score was 2:2, Seppi had to give up his serve to Zeballos for the first time. Shortly afterwards, the Argentine, who reached the semi-finals in Barcelona last week, got another break to make it 5-2 and had a huge opportunity to win the first set on his own service. But Seppi didn't show himself defeated, won four games in a row and made it 6:5. Everything pointed to the tiebreak, but Seppi took Zeballos' serve for the third time and used his second set point to make it 7:5.

Right at the start of the second period, the “Azzurro” had to give up his serve to the 32-year-old Argentine, who made it 2-0 shortly afterwards. With the score at 4:1, the world number 63 got another break and thus paved the way to winning the set. On his own serve, Zeballos left no stone unturned and converted his first set point to make it 6-2.

So the match went into the third, decisive set. Both players looked tired, but still played through their games. When the score was 3:2, Seppi converted a break ball to take a 4:2 lead, but in return he immediately received the rebreak. This exciting match was decided in the 10th game when Zeballos took advantage of a break chance to make it 6:5. In his first attempt to win the match on his own serve, the South American remained ice cold and used the first match point to make it 7:5.

After this defeat, Seppi is now preparing for the Masters 1000 tournament in Madrid, where he will play in qualifying this weekend. The last time he took part three years ago, he was defeated in the first round by the Spaniard Fernando Verdasco.

In doubles with Fognini in the quarterfinals

For Seppi, the tournament in Munich is not over yet. The Kalterer is also registered in the doubles with his compatriot Fabio Fognini. On Monday they beat the German pairing Matthias Bachinger/Maximilian Marterer 6:2, 6:3 in the first round. In the quarter-finals, the “Azzurri” will face the winners of the game Brown/Struff against Cabal/Farah.

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ATP Munich: Seppi fails in the first round to Zeballos

On Tuesday afternoon, in the first round of the ATP 250 tournament in Munich, Andreas Seppi had to defeat the Argentinian Horacio Zeballos, number 63 in the world, in three sets 2:09, 7:5, 2:6 after 5:7 hours of play give up.

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