Andreas Seppi has to give up in the semi-finals

The 37-year-old from Kalter had to bow to the Czech Jiri Vesely (ATP 84) in two sets 4:6, 6:7(1) in the semi-finals. The South Tyrolean, number 4 on the seed list and 93 in the world, eliminated the Spaniard Fernando Verdasco, the Czech Tomas Machac and the French local hero Quentin Halys in turn. On Saturday Vesely ended his winning streak. In the semi-finals, the Kalterer player met the number 2 seeded Czech, who is nine positions ahead of him in the ATP rankings. Seppi and the 28-year-old Vesely met for the first time four years ago at the ATP tournament in Moscow: At that time, the South Tyrolean benefited from his opponent's surrender with a score of 6:3, 4:1. On Saturday, Vesely got his revenge: He took the service from Seppi in the opening game and immediately increased it to 2-0. A little later, the South Tyrolean secured the rebreak to make it 2-2, but immediately lost his service again. With the score at 3:4, Seppi was unable to take advantage of two break chances to equalize and after 40 minutes he gave up the first set 4:6 to Vesely. Seppi has to worry about the top 100 The second half of the game was also very even. Both players served until the score was 6:6; Seppi had to cancel a break point from the Czech in the fifth game. In the tiebreak, Vesely finally pulled ahead 4-0, meaning the South Tyrolean's resistance was broken. After just over an hour and a half of play, Seppi had to admit defeat 1:7. For Seppi, reaching the semi-finals earned him 33 ATP points. The South Tyrolean currently remains in the top 100 in the world rankings, although it is not yet certain whether he will still be in this select circle when the next world rankings appear on October 18th. He will lose the 90 ATP points that he earned in 2019 by reaching the semi-finals of the ATP 250 tournament in Moscow. Seppi will take a break next week and will be at the ATP 250 tournament in Antwerp this weekend. He played the qualification there, as well as a week later at the 500 tournament in Vienna.

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Andreas Seppi has to give up in the semi-finals

Andreas Seppi was eliminated on Saturday afternoon in the semi-finals of the ATP Challenger in Mouilleron-le-Captif, which was worth 66.640 euros.

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