New Haven: Andreas Seppi is in the round of 16

The 35-year-old Kalterer, who had a bye at the start, eliminated US host Roy Smith 7:6(3), 6:3 in the second round. In the round of 1, Seppi, seeded number 192, will play on Thursday against the winner of the game between Canadian Peter Polansky (ATP 521) and American Evan Zhu (ATP XNUMX).

Seppi, who failed in round 1 at the US Open in New York last week against the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, is playing an ATP Challenger tournament again after exactly a year. The world number 77 met on the grounds of Yale University in New Haven. on Wednesday evening against the 20-year-old host Roy Smith (ATP 327), who won in three sets in the first round against qualifier Felix Corwin.

Seppi makes short work of it in the second set However, the South Tyrolean, who played his 170th game on the Challenger Tour in New Haven, had more trouble than expected. The first set was very even until 6:6. Only Seppi had a break chance with the score at 3:3, but he couldn't take advantage of it. In the tiebreak, the Kalterer player made it 5:2 and converted his second set point to 7:3 after just under an hour of play.

In the second half of the game, Seppi promptly took a 3-0 lead. So Smith's resistance was broken: the Kalterer skillfully controlled the lead and won 6:3 a short time later.

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New Haven: Andreas Seppi is in the round of 16

Andreas Seppi reached the round of 162.480 in the strong $XNUMX Challenger in New Haven on Wednesday evening.

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