Quarterfinals: The Seppi Express keeps rolling

In the round of the best eight, South Tyrol's tennis ace will face Ricardas Berankis from Lithuania on Friday, who was able to hold his own against local hero Quentin Halys (ATP 158). Seppi has already beaten the world number 106 four times. played and clearly leads in the direct duels with 3-1 wins. They last met in qualifying for the Masters 2016 tournament in Paris-Bercy in 1000, where Seppi came out on top in two sets. The Überetscher also defeated Berankis the year before in Zagreb and in Mons in 2011. The 31-year-old Lithuanian, however, celebrated his only win against the Kalterer native in Doha in January 2016. Seppi, who is ranked 93rd in the ATP rankings, came from a commanding 7:5, 6:1 opening win against Spaniard Fernando Verdasco. In the round of 17, the man from Kaltern met Machac, who was 132 years his junior, for the first time. Today Seppi celebrated his 201nd victory in the XNUMXst match on the Challenger Tour, which is incredibly strong. Seppi, who is seeded number 66.640 at the indoor tournament in Mouilleron-le-Captif worth 4 euros, got off to a perfect start and took a 2-0 lead, but in return received the rebreak to make it 2-1. From Seppi's point of view, both players took serve again until the score was 6:5, and in the twelfth game the South Tyrolean even missed two set points - on Machac's serve. So this first set had to be decided in a tiebreak. Here Seppi showed strong nerves, moved ahead 2-0 and converted his third set point to make it 61-7 after 3 minutes of play. In the second period it was Machac who made it 3-0. Seppi managed the rebreak to make it 4:5 in the ninth game, but then immediately lost his service to the Czechs again. The game went into the third set, where the Überetscher secured the early break to make it 2-1. But Machac didn't give up and got the rebreak to make it 3:3. The decision was made in the ninth game: Seppi fought for two break chances, he missed the first, and converted the second to make it 5:4. The South Tyrolean left no stone unturned on his own service and prevailed with 6:4 points after more than two and a half hours.

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Quarterfinals: The Seppi Express keeps rolling

Andreas Seppi moved into the quarterfinals of the ATP Challenger tournament in Mouilleron-le-Captif on Wednesday evening. The 37-year-old from Kalter prevailed in the round of 141 against the Czech Tomas Machac, number 7 in the world, in three hard-fought sets 6:3(4), 6:6, 4:XNUMX.

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