Rotterdam: Seppi starts with a mandatory win against Cressy

This year, Seppi is taking part in the indoor tournament in Rotterdam, which is worth 12 euros, for the 980.580th time. He seems to particularly like the “ABN Amro”. He achieved his best result in 2018, where he was actually eliminated in qualifying against the Slovakian Klizan, but then slipped into the main draw as a lucky loser. He then defeated Sousa, the world number 4. Zverev and Medvedev and only failed in the semi-finals against the eventual winner Roger Federer. In Rotterdam 13 years ago, exactly on his 24th birthday, he also defeated the Spanish superstar Rafael Nadal. Today Seppi and Cressy faced each other for the first time in their careers. The Kalterer player went into this game as the clear favorite, after all he is 50 positions ahead of the US boy, who is 14 years younger than him, in the world rankings. Seppi got off to a better start and immediately moved ahead to 3:1, but a little later received the rebreak to make it 3:3. In the eighth game, the South Tyrolean Cressy took the service again to take the lead 5:3. After just over half an hour, Seppi won the first set with 6:4 points. Seppi also dominated the second half of the game and promptly made it 2-0. So Cressy's resistance was broken. The Überetscher played extremely strong tennis and in the end, after just 58 minutes of play, easily won 6:1. On Sunday against Norrie or Niesten In the second, decisive qualifying round tomorrow, Sunday, Andreas Seppi will face the winner of the game between Cameron Norrie (ATP 65) or Miliaan Niesten (ATP 1216), who will face each other shortly. Seppi has never played against either the British or the Dutch hosts.

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Rotterdam: Seppi starts with a mandatory win against Cressy

Andreas Seppi reached the second, decisive qualifying round at the ATP 500 tournament in Rotterdam on Saturday afternoon. The 37-year-old from Kalter won his opening match in the Netherlands against the American Maxime Cressy (ATP 156) confidently in two sets 6:4, 6:1.

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