First round defeats for Sinner and Seppi

The 17-year-old from Sesto lost 0:6, 6:7(5) on Monday against Tristan Lamasine, whom he defeated in qualifying the day before.

The player from Pusteria would have played against Kazakh Mikhail Kukushkin in round 1, but he had to withdraw due to a shoulder injury. The Frenchman Tristan Lamasine slipped into the main field as a “lucky loser”. Sinner and the world number 270 already faced each other on Sunday South Tyrolean was able to hold on in two sets with 6:4, 6:3.

Lamasine got off to a dream start: The Frenchman played great tennis and forced Sinner to make a lot of mistakes. After just 23 minutes of play, the host secured the first set with 6-0 points. In the second half of the game, the “Azzurro” made it 3-1 with a break, but in the eighth game Sinner received the rebreak to make it a 4-4 draw. A little later, this set had to be decided in a tiebreak, with the Frenchman winning 1:17 after 7:5 hours of play. So Lamasine got his revenge against Sinner after less than 24 hours.

The Pusterer goes home with 12 ATP points and 5.285 euros in prize money. Next week Sinner hits the Challenger in Vicenza (May 27th to June 2nd). He then hopes to be able to play the qualifiers at Wimbledon at the end of June.

Geneva: Seppi is eliminated again in round 1 Andreas Seppi had to admit defeat to the Bolivian Hugo Dellien (ATP 250) in three sets with 92:1, 6:6, 3:4 at the start of the ATP 6 tournament in Geneva on Monday afternoon.

The South Tyrolean is still waiting for his first clay court victory of the season, having already been eliminated in round 1 in Monte Carlo, Budapest, Munich, Madrid and last week in Rome. In fact, it was Seppi's eighth consecutive first-round defeat of the current season. The world number 66. The last dress rehearsal for the second Grand Slam tournament of the year, the French Open in Paris, which begins on May 26th, is also botched.

For Seppi, who was seeded number 8 in Geneva, nothing went right at the beginning. The “Azzurro” was promptly 0:5 behind and after just 24 minutes of play had to clearly give up set 1 to Dellien 1:6. A strong performance from the 25-year-old Bolivian, who won 67% of his first serves and didn't let Seppi have a break chance.

In the second half of the game, Seppi found his way into the game better and pulled away to 3-1 with an early break. The Kalterer player controlled this lead and shortly afterwards converted his first set point to make it 6:3. So this match had to be decided in the third set, where Seppi took a 1-0 lead with a break. But Dellien didn't give up and equalized a little later to make it 3-3. After 1:51 hours, the outsider made the sensation perfect when he took Seppi's serve to win the match 6:4.

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First round defeats for Sinner and Seppi

Jannik Sinner was eliminated in the first round of the ATP 250 tournament in Lyon. Andreas Seppi also suffered a defeat in Geneva.

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