Val Gardena: Gaio is in the quarter-finals, Nardi fails in round 1

As in the first round with Francesco Forti, he also eliminated a qualifier in the round of 6. The match against Altug Celikbilek from Turkey was not a walk in the park, even though Gaio won 4:7, 5:13. Celikbilek hadn't dropped a set in his first three matches in Val Gardena and also hit 8 aces on Wednesday. Gaio only 5. But the Italian played with concentration during his service and didn't have a breakball against him in the entire match. One break per set was enough for him to win. On the break point to make it 6:12.30 in the second set, Celikbilek made a double fault. Gaio then served and is now waiting for the winner of the Russian duel between Aslan Karatsev and lucky loser Evgeni Karlovskiy. Musetti's conqueror Roberto Marcora is the second Azzurro who wants to reach the quarter-finals on Thursday. He meets Julian Lenz at XNUMX p.m.

The 17-year-old Luca Nardi from Pesaro had his chances to win his first round match. But in the end the Czech Tomas Machac, who is 197 places ahead of him in the world rankings as number 600, prevailed 7:6 (4) and 7:6 (8) and will play against Martin Klizan from Slovakia in the round of XNUMX on Thursday .

Who knows how the match would have ended if Nardi had used his break ball in the first game. Nardi led 2-0 in the first tiebreak, but Machac scored 5 of the next 6 points and took the first round with his fourth ace after 47 minutes. In the second set, Nardi managed the first break to make it 4:3. Machac managed the re-break and it went back to the tiebreak, in which Nardi led 5:2 and had two set points. But the Czech scored the last three points to secure victory. 2 French in the quarterfinals The two Frenchmen Alexandre Muller and Antoine Hoang were the first two players to qualify for the quarter-finals in Val Gardena on Wednesday. In the longest tournament match to date, Muller defeated Prinoth conqueror Jay Clarke from Great Britain 2:12 (7), 6:2 (6), 7:4 in the round of 6 after more than 3:4 hours. A break to make it 2:5 in the third set decided the close game, in which Muller still had to fend off two match points at 4:211 when he served to win the match. The world number XNUMX will play Illya Marchenko from Ukraine in the quarterfinals on Friday. He didn't have to play in his match against Hugo Grenier on Wednesday because the Frenchman was ill.

The number 5 seed Hoang (number 126 in the world) stopped the winning streak of qualifier Pavel Kotov from Russia in the round of 6. He won 2:6 4:XNUMX in just over an hour and is now waiting for the winner of the duel between Roberto Marcora and Julian Lenz.

Number 3 seeded Aslan Karatsev from Russia and Maximilian Marterer from Germany played a game at a high level in the penultimate first round game. The Russian won against the winner of the Challenger tournament in Bratislava last Sunday with 7:6 (4), 6:2.

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Val Gardena: Gaio is in the quarter-finals, Nardi fails in round 1

Federico Gaio, seeded number 6, made it to the quarter-finals of the Challenger tournament in Val Gardena.

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