The Masters 1000 tournament in Miami does not bring good news for Matteo Berrettini, who had to retire on the day of his debut, in the second round, due to a problem in his right hand.
No match with the Argentine Juan Manuel Cerundolo, therefore, and another blue out of action after the elimination, yesterday, of Lorenzo Musetti, a bit surprisingly, at the hands of the Australian Alexei Popyrin).
To continue the path, but with a really painful start to the journey, were Fabio Fognini and Jannik Sinner.
Just to read the score (6-7, 6-2, 7-6), we understand that it was not an easy match for Fognini, who was forced to come back against the Japanese Taro Daniel after badly losing the first set at the tie break.
A match that had seen him steal his rival's service twice but as many suffer the counterbreak after having wasted three set points in the tenth game.
In the tie break the 34-year-old from Arma di Taggia practically did not play: Daniel flew to 5-0, then closing 7-1.
In the second set, the blue found continuity and in half an hour he rebalanced the challenge but in the third set his life was complicated again by forcing himself to the tie break, this time winning even if certainly not serene.
On his path, on Sunday, he should find the insidious Andrey Rublev, n.7 in the ranking.
The South Tyrolean Sinner, who faced the 22-year-old Finnish Emil Ruusuvuori, won 6-4, 3-6, 7-6.
So much effort did not seem necessary after a first set won easily, but just as easily the
Azzurri lost the second and in the third they fought point by point up to 10-8 of the tie break.
In the next round, Sinner will face 19-year-old Spaniard Pablo Carreno-Busta.
Meanwhile, there is concern for Berrettini, who had already been stopped in Acapulco a month ago by a physical problem, then in the abdominals.
The n.1 of the blue tennis, n.6 Atp, understood and solved the new disturbance that arose, should at this point return to the field on the red clay of the Monte Carlo tournament, which will begin on 9 April