Sensation in Rotterdam: Seppi knocks out the world number 4

Seppi won against the German 6:4, 6:3 and is now in the quarter-finals on Friday. The Kalterer, who slipped into the main field as a lucky loser, had a very strong performance in round 1, where he reached world number 68 on Monday. Joao Sousa from Portugal was able to defeat in three sets 6:4, 1:6, 6:2. On Wednesday, Seppi played against a top ten player for the 89th time in his career. Before the game against Alexander Zverev, the Überetscher's record was 8 wins and 80 defeats. The German currently appears in fourth place in the ATP computer and clearly beat Seppi 1000:6, 1:6 in the only duel last year, at the Masters 2 tournament in Monte Carlo.

Seppi played like one in the first set and forced Zverev to make many mistakes. Although the German took a 2-0 lead straight away, the South Tyrolean won five of the next six games and moved ahead to 5:3. Zverev managed the rebreak to make it 4:5, and immediately afterwards Seppi took the German's service to zero to make it 6:4.

After 1:18 hours the sensation was perfect From Seppi's point of view, the second period of the game was quite even until the score was 3:2. Then the world number 81 secured the break to 4:2 and immediately increased to 5:2. After 1:18 hours the sensation was perfect, Seppi converted his first match point to make the final score 6:3.

An incredible performance from Andreas Seppi, who last defeated a top ten player in Halle in June 2015. At that time he benefited from giving up the world number 4 in the semi-finals with a score of 1:4. Kei Nishikori. Curious: Exactly ten years ago in Rotterdam, Seppi also defeated the then number 2 in the world, Rafael Nadal, also in the second round.

In the quarter-finals on Friday, the South Tyrolean will face the winner of the game between Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Daniil Medvedev.

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Sensation in Rotterdam: Seppi knocks out the world number 4

Sensational performance by Andreas Seppi in the round of 500 of the ATP 33 tournament in Rotterdam. The 3-year-old from Kalter knocked out the German young star Alexander Zverev, number 4 on the seed list and XNUMX in the world, from the tournament on Wednesday evening.

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