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Tennis, Atp Cup: Shapovalov beats Tsitsipas

2020-01-03T17:08:15.825Z


Belgium suffers from Moldova, tough challenge also for USA (ANSA)


David Goffin's Belgians were the first to take the field but Denis Shapovalov's Canadians, capable of beating Stefanos Tsitsipas at the start, the first to win their match at the Atp Cup, an unprecedented team event that opens the tennis season professional in the three Australian venues in Brisbane, Sydney and Perth.The opening was in fact scheduled at the Ken Rosewall Arena in Brisbane and on paper it was a match without history between Belgium by David Goffin, n.11, and Steve Darcis and Moldova of a solid Radu Albot, n.46, who however had the inexperienced Alexander Cozbinov n. 818 of the ATP ranking, never winner of a single match on the circuit.
But things did not go smoothly as expected and Cozbinov engaged in a marathon battle with veteran Darcis, which lasted 3 hours and 10 minutes (6-4 6-7 (4) 7-5 the result) that forced Goffin to suffer long on the bench before brilliantly regulating the Albot practice, with a net 6-4 6-1, in an hour and 22 minutes. Before him he had the opportunity to raise his arms to heaven, on the central field of the Pat Rafter Arena in Brisbane, Denis Shapovalov, n.15 Atp, who came up in two sets, both ended at the tie break on n. 6 of the Tsitsipas world.
In the match that interests Italy closely, that between the United States and Norway, inserted in the same group as Italy and Russia, the Americans complicated their lives.
John Isner, the 2m and 8cm tall bomber, No. 19 in the world was favored against Casper Ruud, No. 19. 54, recent protagonist of the Next Gen Atp Finals in Milan. But the young son of art (his father Christian was top 100) showed further progress and engaged in a very hard fight with the American giant. It was not enough for Isner 33 ace and not even two match-points in the tie-break of the second set. One step away from the abyss, Ruud reacted as a champion. He overturned the outcome of the tie-break by winning it 12-10 and he fought point-to-point in the third game, tearing the opponent's service right on 6-5, when he was looking forward to a further tie-break. Now the challenge is decided with the double: the Americans Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram face Ruud and Durasovic.

Source: ansa

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