3-hour marathon for Alexander Weis – Fellin continues

Manfred Fellin had to start in the qualification in Cairo, but was lucky yesterday when another qualifier, the Slovakian Martin Fekiac, was drawn to him in the first round of the main field. The man from Brixen got off to a dream start today and won the first set with 33:6 points after just 1 minutes. In the second half of the game he managed the break to make it 4:3, then he left no stone unturned and used his first match point after 1:28 hours of play to make the final score 6:4.

In the round of 10, Fellin will face the strong German Kai Wehnelt, number 5 on the seeding list and 207th in the ITF rankings, on Thursday at 3 a.m. Four hours later he has to do it again: with the Slovenian Anze Ahr he plays the double quarter-finals against the number XNUMX seeded Frenchmen Pierre Delage/Mathieu Perchicot.

However, Sebastian Brzezinski lost his first round singles match in Cairo. The 17-year-old talent had to admit defeat to Marco De Rossi from San Marino in the qualification yesterday, but slipped into the main field as a lucky looser. Here he lost 55:43, 0:6 against the Czech Vit Kopriva (ITF 2) in just 6 minutes.

Alexander Weis is eliminated after a 3-hour marathon Alexander Weis was also eliminated in the first round of the $25.000 tournament in Santa Margherita di Pula. After qualifying, the man from Bolzano only had to beat Ronald Slobodchikov (ITF 112) in the main draw after a three-hour marathon with 5:7, 7:6(6) and 2:6. give up.

In the first set the Russian moved to 4:2, but Weis was able to equalize to 4:4. With the score at 5:5, Slobodchikov managed another break, then served his serve to win the set 7:5. In the second set, Weis was 3:5 behind with a break, but equalized again to make it 5:5. In the tiebreak he fended off a match point from his opponent at 5:6 and then won 8:6. The third, decisive period of the game only remained even until 2:2, then the Russian played four games in a row to win the match 6:2. In the direct duels against Weis he now leads 2-0, ten months ago he was able to hold his own in Cairto with 6:4, 6:1.

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