ATP Val Gardena: Andreas Seppi moves confidently into the round of 16

Number 23 in the world rankings from Kaltern is the big favorite to win the home tournament. In the round of 2 on Thursday, Seppi will face the strong-serving Jan Mertl from the Czech Republic. Seppi dominated the match against Mektic from the start. A break to make it 1-2 was enough for him to win the first set. In the second set, the dominance of the tournament favorite became even more evident. Seppi only gave up five points on her own serve in the entire game and made three breaks to make it 1:4, 1:6 and 1:XNUMX. The spectators applauded enthusiastically when the game was over after a double fault from Mektic.

Title defender Rajeev Ram eliminated But “Super Tuesday” also brought some surprises. With defending champion Rajeev Ram (number 4), last year's semi-finalist Philipp Petzschner (5) and Canadian Vasek Pospisil (7), three seeded players were eliminated in the first round.

The American Rajeev Ram lost to the German Dominik Meffert 6:7(3) and 3:6 in a game between two strong servers. After the 3:3 in the second set, Meffert managed two more breaks. The German, for his part, didn't allow a single breakball in the entire match.

The German Philipp Petzschner, number 107 in the world, suffered a surprising 2:04(7), 6:3(6), 7:5 defeat against qualifier Pierre-Hugues Herbert from France after 4:6 hours. After Petzschner was unable to take advantage of the first break chance of the game at 3:3 in the second set and then lost the tiebreak, he also received the only break of the game to make it 0:1 in the third set. The German still had two break opportunities, but Herbert, who had already impressed in qualifying, kept his nerve and moved into the round of XNUMX.

Vasek Pospisil from Canada (number seven) played only five games against Jimmy Wang from Taiwan and lost 3:6, 2:6.

Simone Bolelli in the round of 16 At least Simone Bolelli made it into the second round. But the Italian Davis Cup player also needed two hours for his 6:7(7), 6:1, 6:4 victory over the experienced South African Rik De Voest. But Bolelli could also have won in two sets, because in the first round he served to win the set at 5:4 and already had a set point in the tiebreak at 7:6.

Last year's finalist Jan Hernych from the Czech Republic is also in the round of 3. He also had some problems. At 4:6 in the third set, he had to fend off four break points against Swiss qualifier Sandro Ehrat before retaining the upper hand 7:2(6), 3:6, 4:XNUMX.

Thanks to his serving strength and 18 aces in ten service games, the Czech Jan Mertl reached the next round after a 7:6 (5), 6:3 against last year's semi-finalist Konstantin Kravchuk from Russia. Mertl is Andreas Seppi's second opponent on Thursday.

The South Tyrolean Holzer/Prader are playing tomorrow The first round will conclude tomorrow in Val Gardena with the Brands-Becker match at 13.30 p.m. Farrukh Dustov then fights against Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin for a place in the quarterfinals on Friday. At 18.30 p.m. Simone Bolelli will make his second appearance in Val Gardena. He will play against Frenchman Josselin Ouanna in the round of XNUMX. The tournament day ends with the double quarter-finals between the two South Tyrolean players Holzer/Prader.

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ATP Val Gardena: Andreas Seppi moves confidently into the round of 16

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