MONTECARLO (MONACO) (ITALPRESS) – Reduce from the “Sunshine Double”, Jannik Sinner begins the season on the earth coming to the eighth of the “Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters”, the third “1000” season, with a prize pool of 6,309,095 euros, which is disputed on the red earth of the Country Club of Monte-Carlo, in Monaco. Second series and bye head in the first round, the 24-year-old South Tyrolean defeated the French Ugo Humbert for 6-3 6-0 in an hour and 4 minutes of play. For a place in the quarters Sinner will face the winner of the match between Francisco Cerundolo, number 16 of seeding, and Tomas Machac.
“I’m glad, it was a good performance from my point of view. It was the first match on earth, you have to change the style of play a little bit, adapt to some circumstances: the first two games, the first tournament are never easy, there is not so much time to adapt but I am happy to be able to play here another match. The sensations are good but there are not so many expectations“. Jannik Sinner enjoys the victory over Humbert at the debut in Monte Carlo, a tournament with which he inaugurated his season on earth. “The most difficult thing – dwells on the passage from the fast American – is the slip, understand how long it has to be to find the right distance on the ball. But the best workouts are the games though they also count the moments off, which you have to take advantage of to complete your game. You try to find the right condition for the Roland Garros, the goal is that, but there is time to adapt and I am happy for how I made this transition.”.
DEBUTTO POSITIVO PER ALCARAZ
Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz answers. The first is also good for Spanish at the “Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters”. Alcaraz, number one in the world and seeding, outgoing champion and in tabellone directly in the second round, landed for 6-1 6-3 by Sebastian Baez and landed at the eighths where he will see it with one between Tomas Martin Etcheverry and Terence Atmane.
AVANTI BERRETTINI, BAUSITA AGUT SI RITIRA
Quick and painless debut for Matteo Berrettini. In the match that opened the program on the Court Ranieri III (the Central Field of the Country Club) the 29-year-old Roman, number 90 of the ranking, in tabellone thanks to a wild card, passed the Spanish Roberto Bautista Agut, number 85 Atp, repeated in tabellone as lucky loser, forced to withdraw for a physical problem half the first set, on the score of 4-0 in favor of the blue after just 23 minutes of match. In the second round, Berrettini will have to meet with the Russian Daniil Medvedev, number 10 of the ranking and seventh favourite of seeding: the 30-year-old Moscovi won all three previous challenges with the blue, but the two do not cross from the rounds of the Atp Cup of 2022. The two have never faced each other on the “red”, surface on which Berrettini conquered 6 of his 10 trophies.
DARDERI SUBITO FUORI
Luciano Darderi comes out immediately. On the Court EA de Massy, the Argentinean, number 21 of the ranking and 15 of the seeding, was defeated for 7-6(4) 5-7 6-1 by the Polish Hubert Hurkacz, former top ten and today number 74 Atp, in competition with the protected ranking. For the 29-year-old of Wroclav a success that could represent a turn in a season to forget: the Polish, returned in January after the stop for the injury to the right knee, won four of the five matches won in season (on the 12 played here) in United Cup and the other in the first round of the Australian Open. For the rest he had lost in the first round in the last six tournaments played.
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