Seppi dispatches Daniel in two sentences

The 34-year-old from Kalter defeated the Japanese Taro Daniel, number 74 in the world, 6:0 and 6:4 in just over an hour of play in the first round of the “Swiss Indoors”.

After reaching the semi-finals in Moscow, Seppi climbed to 43rd place in the world rankings. Today the Kalterer got off to a dream start and won the first set with 22-6 points after just 0 minutes. Daniel also had no chance in the second half of the game. Seppi immediately took the serve from the 25-year-old Japanese and moved away to 2-0. He then controlled the game and used his first match point after 63 minutes to make the final score 6:4.

By making it to the round of 27.870, Seppi has already secured 45 euros in prize money and 20 ATP points. In the next round he will face the winner of the game between the Russian Daniil Medvedev (ATP 67) and the German Maximilian Marterer (ATP XNUMX) -

But for Seppi, the working day in Basel is not yet over. He also has to play doubles in the evening. With his compatriot Marco Cecchinato he will face the Briton Dominic Inglot and the Croatian Franko Skugor in the first round. Inglot/Skugor are doubles specialists and are ranked 15th in the world.

Out in doubles In the doubles, however, there was nothing to celebrate for Seppi. Together with his partner Marco Cecchinato, he had to admit defeat to the duo Dominic Inglot/Franco Skugor in two sets.

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Seppi dispatches Daniel in two sentences

Andreas Seppi started the ATP 500 tournament in Basel, which has prize money of almost 2,5 million euros, on Wednesday with a victory.

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