Seppi starts in Delray Beach with a doubles win

Seppi and Paolo Lorenzi narrowly prevailed in his first round doubles match against the Australian pairing of John-Patrick Smith/Jordan Thompson 6:2, 3:6 and 10:6.

The two experienced “Azzurri”, Seppi turns 35 on Thursday and Lorenzi is 37 years old, took serve from their opponents in the first game and pulled away to 2-0 and 4-1. After just 28 minutes they took the first set 6-2. In the second period, Smith/Thompson used a break point to take a 3-1 lead and then won 6-3. Pure tension in the match tiebreak: Seppi/Lorenzi took the lead 4:0 and 6:3, but the two Australians were able to reduce the score to 6:5. Then the “Azzurri” pulled away again to 9:5 and, after 1:09 hours of play, used their second match point to make the final score 10:6.

In the round of 2, Seppi/Lorenzi will face the winners of the game between the number XNUMX seeded Brits Ken and Neal Skupski and the Australians John Millman/Alexei Popyrin.

Fearful opponent Tomic In the singles, Seppi will face Bernard Tomic in the first round on Tuesday (from 19.40 p.m. CET). The 26-year-old Australian, currently number 85 in the world (he was number 2016 in 17), is Seppi's feared opponent, who fell to number 52 in the ATP rankings this week. The Kalterer player has so far lost all four direct duels against Tomic. He lost twice at the Hopman Cup in Perth (2013 and 2014), in 2010 at the Queen's Club in London on grass and three years later in the semi-finals in Sydney.

Seppi is seeded number 6 in Delray Beach. The top seed is the Argentinian Juan Martin Del Porto, the number 2 is the American John Isner.

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Seppi starts in Delray Beach with a doubles win

Andreas Seppi is taking part in the ATP 250 tournament in Delray Beach in the USA for the first time in his career this week. The Kalterer player started the tournament with a win on Tuesday night.

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