Matteo Beretini defeated by Nuno Borges In the final of the “Arizona Tennis Classic,” an ultra-rich Challenger 175 car with a prize pool of $225,500. Blue fought throughout the match, but that was not enough to defeat the 60th ranked player in the ATP rankings, who finally achieved success after an hour and 58 minutes of the match with a score of 5-7 and 6-7 (4-7). Thus, the Portuguese, seeded fifth in the American Challenger draw, was confirmed as champion.
Berrettini's words at the end of the match
“Thanks to all the people who came to see me: it's been a crazy week – Blue was announced at the end of the match –. Today I definitely didn't get the result I wanted, but I'm happy to be back playing. “It was a tough match, Nuno is playing very well: he deserved to win and also showed fair play by giving me the set point for him.”.
Borges wins the second set in a tiebreak
Berrettini led 3-1 in the tie-break, but Borges came back to lead 6-4, winning on two match points. At the first opportunity, the Portuguese did not make any mistakes and won the Phoenix tournament by two sets to zero, in an hour and 58 minutes of the match.
Berrettini saved another match point and headed to a second set tiebreak.
Borges saves two break points and leads 6-5. Berrettini works to win the tiebreaker.
Berrettini saves a match point and then holds serve to tie the score at 5-5. And now Borges is in service.
Both players broke their serve and the match continues in this second set on the brink of balance. Berrettini did well in his reaction after losing his serve and breaking the serve of Borges, who had the opportunity to serve in the match.
Berrettini and Borges won their service games again without conceding a single point: 3-4 for the Portuguese in the second set. Neither player conceded any break points in this second set.
We are on the verge of balance at the beginning of the second set: up to this point, both Borges and Berrettini have held serve, and there have been no breaks.
The second set begins with Borges serving, and the Portuguese holds serve without losing a single point.
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