The Carrara player overturns the Serbian Lajovic: he will challenge the Czech Mensik. Now, however, the plans for the Paris tournament, starting on Saturday, are getting complicated. Good news for Errani, Sara scores a hat-trick.
Italian tennis wins and makes progress even without Jannik Sinner. After Matteo Berrettini, who qualified for the semi-finals of the Kitzbuhel tournament, it’s Lorenzo Musetti who is celebrating for the similar result achieved in Umag, Croatia. Semifinal achieved with a comeback: Friday at 7pm he will face the Czech Mensik. But it’s not all roses and flowers: the further Musetti goes in Croatia, the more complicated the plans become in view of the Olympic tournament in Paris. The men’s draw will start on Saturday on the courts of Roland Garros and also on Saturday the possible final of the tournament in Umag is scheduled: yet another mess created by the ATP.
Umag: Winning comeback, Musetti prevails against Lajovic
Success in three sets for the Carrara native, who reached the semi-final after a long battle against the Serbian Dusan Lajovic. Difficult start for Musetti, mocked at the advantages of the first set and forced to chase (5-7). Excellent, however, the reaction in the second partial. Break placed immediately and advantage consolidated until the 6-3 at the end of the fraction. A monologue, then, the third set, with Lajovic practically collapsed and Musetti on velvet. Six to zero the final, in two hours and 16′ of play. Now for Musetti the semi-final against the Czech Jakub Mensik, 18 years old, number 81 in the ATP rankings: an opportunity to be exploited.
Nothing to do for Sonego: eliminated by the Argentine Cerundolo
Beyond two and a half hours of battle were not enough for Lorenzo Sonego to get the better of a clay-court specialist, the Argentine Francisco Cerundolo. The Turin native was eliminated in the quarter-finals in Umag by the South American, who was cooler and more lucid in the decisive moments of the match. Sonego lost the first set by a narrow margin (4-6), then reacted greatly in the second, which he won by conceding just two games to his opponent, then he responded blow for blow to Cerundolo in the third and decisive set. In the tie-break, however, there was no contest: Cerundolo soon broke away and closed at 7-2, booking his ticket to the semifinal against Andrey Rublev.
Paris, Errani hat trick: she will play singles, doubles and mixed doubles
Meanwhile good news for Sara Errani. The Italian veteran, at her fifth Olympics, He will even take part in three tournaments. If her participation in the women’s doubles with her friend Jasmine Paolini and in the mixed doubles with Andrea Vavassori had already been made official, it is the announcement of her repechage in the women’s singles arrived at the last minute, from which she had been excluded by just two positions. The defections of Elena Rybakina and her designated replacement, the Australian Daria Saville Gavrilova, have opened the doors of the tournament to her. A fantastic hat trick, therefore, for the Italian.
Source: sport.virgilio.it
