Seppi moves into the round of 16 in Rotterdam

Seppi was actually eliminated in qualifying against the winner of the 2016 Rotterdam tournament, Martin Klizan. However, since the Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was unable to compete in the main field due to a wrist injury, the Kalterer man slipped into the main field as a “lucky loser”. Here Seppi met Joao Sousa in the first round, against whom he had lost both previous duels.

The game started with an early break from Seppi. In the third game, world number 81 Sousa took serve for the first time and made it 2-1. Afterwards, the “Azzurro” usually carried out his service confidently and even had a set point when the score was 5:3, which the Portuguese was able to fend off. But Seppi didn't let anything go wrong on his own serve and converted his third set point to make it 6:4.

Sousa then dominated the second period. The 28-year-old from Guimaraes took Seppi's serve twice and moved ahead to 5-1. Sousa served very strongly, winning 87% of his points with the first service and taking the set 1:6.

In the third, decisive period of the game, it was Seppi who promptly took the lead 3-0. In the seventh game, the Kalterer player had to fend off two break chances before increasing to 5:2. Shortly afterwards, Seppi had his first three match points. Sousa fended off the first two, and the South Tyrolean converted the third to make the final score 6-2. By reaching the round of 45, Seppi secured 26.000 ATP points and over XNUMX euros in prize money.

Now against Alexander Zverev A strong performance from Seppi, who will face number 3 Alexander Zverev in the round of 6. The young star from Germany effortlessly beat Spaniard David Ferrer 4:6, 3:1000 at the start on Monday. So far, Seppi and Zverev have only faced each other once. Last year, Zverev won 6:1, 6:2 in the first round of the Masters XNUMX tournament in Monte Carlo.

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Seppi moves into the round of 16 in Rotterdam

Andreas Seppi is in the round of 500 at the ATP 33 tournament in Rotterdam. On Monday evening, the 1-year-old from Kalter defeated the Portuguese Joao Sousa in three sets in the first round, after 50:6 hours of play, 4:1, 6:6, 2:XNUMX.

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