Australian Open: Seppi clears the first hurdle with flying colors

The 33-year-old from Kalter continued his winning streak in Melbourne and defeated the young French wild card player Corentin Moutet (ATP 155) in four sets 3:6, 6:4, 6:2, 6:2 in the first round .

As is often the case, Seppi slept through the start of the match. In the fifth game of the first set, Moutet took the South Tyrolean's service for the first time and took the lead 3-2. A little later, the 18-year-old Frenchman even managed the next break to make it 6:3.

In the second half of the game, the people from Kalter found their way into the game better and better and were ahead 3-0. But Moutet didn't give up, got two rebreaks and even equalized to 4:4. In the following game it was Seppi again who increased the lead to 5:4 with another break. The current number 76 in the world left no stone unturned on her own serve and held her own 6:4.

Seppi then took the match into his own hands. With the score at 2:2, the Kalterer player scored four points in a row to win the set 6:2. At this point, 2:07 hours had already been played. The Kalterer remained dominant in the fourth set, got two breaks and won again 6:2. Seppi thus moved into the second round.

In round 2 against Nishioka An important victory for Seppi, which gave him 45 ATP points. In order not to slip in the world rankings, the Kalterer player has to win the next two games as he has to defend the 180 points from last year's round of 168. In the second round, Seppi will face the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka (ATP 29), who was surprisingly able to hold his own in five sets against the German Philipp Kohlschreiber, number 22 in the world. South Tyrol's tennis ace and the XNUMX-year-old from Mie have never faced each other before.

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Australian Open: Seppi clears the first hurdle with flying colors

48 hours after his Challenger victory in Canberra, Andreas Seppi was in action at the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, the Australian Open, on the night from Sunday to Monday.

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