Andreas Seppi clears the first hurdle in Val Gardena

On Thursday in the round of 40, the crowd favorite will face Farrukh Dustov from Uzbekistan, who also trained in South Tyrol for many years, in an interesting duel. Seppi knew that it wouldn't be easy to get a break against the former world number 18. The Dutchman also served really well, but in the end 10 aces weren't enough for him to defeat Seppi for the first time in the second duel. Seppi himself didn't allow a single break point in the entire match, served 0 aces himself and returned strongly. In the tiebreak he was 3:XNUMX behind, but with seven points in a row he took the first set and laid the foundation for victory.

In the second set he finally took advantage of his ninth break chance and took serve from De Bakker to make it 2-1. It should remain the decisive break.

“I am happy with my start here in Val Gardena. The first match at a tournament is never easy. I think I returned very well today. But I have to stay focused against Dustov too. He plays his best tennis on such surfaces,” said the Kalterer after the match.

Matteo Donati keeps up for a sentence For one set, Italy's great talent Matteo Donati held his own very well against number eight seed Frank Dancevic from Canada (ATP number 134) and won the tiebreak in the first round with 7:6 (5), but after 1:32 hours he had to give up The 18-year-old, who entered with a wild card, was defeated 7:6, 1:6, 1:6 in the last Tuesday game.

Of the seven players from Italy who competed, only two had reached the round of 16 before the first appearance tomorrow by Patrick Prader (against Martin Fischer) and Marco Cecchinato (against Dustin Brown): the big tournament favorite Andreas Seppi and Matteo Trevisan.

Sparkasse ATP Challenger Val Gardena South Tyrol - Main draw men

1. round Andreas Seppi (ITA/WC/1/ATP 25) - Thiemo De Bakker (NED/ATP 142) 7:6(3), 6:4 Farrukh Dustov (UZB/WC/ATP 215) - Andrea Arnaboldi (ITA/ATP 209) 6:2, 6:4 Ruben Bemelmans (BEL/ATP 149) - Jan Mertl (CZE/ATP 203) Frank Dancevic (CAN/8/ATP 134) - Matteo Donati (ITA/WC/ATP 404) 6:7(5), 6:1, 6:1 Benjamin Becker (GER/4/ATP 66) - Richard Becker (GER/Q/ATP 407) 7:6(4), 6:3 Michael Berrer (GER/ATP 141) - Konstantin Kravchuk (RUS/ATP 182) 5:7, 6:2, 6:3 Matthias Bachinger (GER/ATP 157) - Tim Puetz (GER/SE/ATP 207) 6:3, 3:6, 7:6(7) Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS/5/ATP 92) - Andres Artunedo Martinavarr (ESP/Q/ATP 346) 7:5, 7:6(4) Marco Chiudinelli (SUI/ATP 184) - Matteo Viola (ITA/7/ATP 129) 7:5, 6:2 Nikola Mektic (CRO/Q/ATP 316) - Alexander Ritschard (SUI/Q/ATP 701) 7:6(3), 6:4 Matteo Trevisan (ITA/LL/ATP 369) - Peter Gojowczyk (GER/ATP 158) 4:6, 6:3, 6:2 Simon Greul (GER/ATP 260) - Dudi Sela (ISR/3/ATP 69) 7:6(2), 6:2 Jesse Huta Galung (NED/6/ATP 106) - Jaroslav Pospisil (CZE/ATP 210) 6:2, 6:4 Marco Cecchinato (ITA/ATP 165) - Dustin Brown (GER/ATP 126) Martin Fischer (AUT/ATP 196) - Patrick Prader (ITA/WC/ATP 953) Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA/ATP 160) - Michal Przysiezny (POL/2/ATP 59)

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Andreas Seppi clears the first hurdle in Val Gardena

Andreas Seppi had a strong start this evening at the "Sparkasse ATP Challenger Val Gardena Südtirol" in front of over 500 spectators (including figure skating star Carolina Kostner) and defeated the serving giant Thiemo De Bakker after 75 minutes of top tennis with 7:6 (3) and 6 :4 defeated.

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