ATP Val Gardena: Out for last year's semi-finalist Matteo Viola - UPDATE

Viola made up for a 0-2 deficit in both sets, but suffered the decisive break in the eleventh game that led to defeat.

Lucky loser Matteo Trevisan, another player from Italy, made it to the round of 24. The 200-year-old surprisingly beat Peter Gojowczyk from Germany, who was over 4 places ahead of him in the world rankings, 6:6, 3:6, 2:260. In the second round, Trevisan will face another German, world number XNUMX Simon Greul.

Gabashvili and Mektic in the round of 16 The Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili, seeded number five, also made it to the round of 7. He defeated Spanish qualifier Andres Artunedo Martinavarr 5:7, 6:4(7). The Croatian Nikola Mektic, on the other hand, won the qualifying duel against the Swiss Alexander Ritschard 6:3(6), 4:XNUMX.

After the match between Farrukh Dustow and Andrea Arnaboldi (around 18 p.m.), crowd favorite Andreas Seppi makes his first appearance this year in Val Gardena. Last year's finalist, who wants to win the home tournament at the second attempt, will meet the Dutchman Thiemo De Bakker.

Defending champion Becker also continues As expected, defending champion Benjamin Becker has cleared the first hurdle at the Sparkasse ATP Challenger Val Gardena South Tyrol. The number four seeded German won his sixth game in a row in Ortisei, defeating his compatriot and namesake Richard Becker 7:6 (7:4) and 6:3. Ten aces wasn't enough for qualifier Richard Becker. The favorite played the important points better and managed the only break of the entire game to make it 4:2 in the second set. Becker will play against his German compatriot Michael Berrer in the round of 18 tomorrow at XNUMX p.m.

Farrukh Dustov is also in the round of 1. The Uzbek, who trained in South Tyrol (at TC Rungg) for a long time in his career, won the duel with the Italian Andrea Arnaboldi, with whom he also plays in Rome in Serie A, 27:6, 2 after 6:4 hours :9. Dustow will face the winner of the duel between top favorite Andreas Seppi and Thiemo De Bakker in the round of 7 on Thursday. Matthias Bachinger and number six seed Jesse Huta Galung are also in the round of XNUMX. Bachinger won the game against his compatriot Tim Pütz, which was exciting until the last rally, XNUMX:XNUMX in the tiebreak of the third set. Huta Galung had an easy game against the Czech Jaroslav Pospisil and only gave his opponent four games.

Tomorrow from 10.30 a.m. the last four first round games (with co-favorite Michal Przysiezny from Poland, with Patrick Prader and with Dustin Brown) and also the first four round of XNUMX games will be played.

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) 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) Matteo Donati (ITA/WC/ATP 404) - Frank Dancevic (CAN/8/ATP 134) 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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ATP Val Gardena: Out for last year's semi-finalist Matteo Viola - UPDATE

The Italian Matteo Viola was eliminated in the first round of the “Sparkasse ATP Challenger Val Gardena Südtirol” on Tuesday after Dudi Sela from Israel as the second seed. The number seven in the 64.000 euro tournament in Ortisei had to admit defeat to the Swiss Marco Chiudinelli 2:6, 5:7.

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