There will be no Italian derby in the round of 16 of the Mutua Madrid Open, the fourth Masters 1000 tournament of the season, which is being held at the Caja Magica stadium in the Spanish capital. Flavio Copoli defeated by Karen Khachanov. The Russian, seeded No. 16, who won 7-5, 6-4 over the Romanian, will be the one to face Top seed Jannik Sinner, who defeated Russian Pavel Kotov 6-2, 7-5, No. 72 on the ATP Tour, finished in one hour and 39 minutes of play, despite an apparent right thigh issue. After warming up for 50 minutes The tennis player from South Tyrol decided to play.
Sinner Khachanov, alive
Begins kafir Serving the second set and leading 1-0 despite the third double fault of the match.
Siner Khachanov 0-1 (5-7)
If you part with Yannick Siner To the serve that easily takes it home in the first game of the match. Immediate response from Khachanov who trailed 0-30, but did a good job of converting the score to 1-1. Sinner returns serve and trails 0-40, the three break points are immediately canceled and the game goes to the advantage: the South Tyrol player shows all his talent and leads 2-1 with 5 points in a row. Khachanov Clearing, kafir He takes the lead again with a score of 3-2. The balance of the match was not broken, and in the seventh match, Blue remained ahead with a score of 4-3. There were no mistakes from the tennis players, Sinner leads 5-4 and waits for the Russian to serve. Khachanov equalized the score and in the eleventh game he returned to break point again, which this time, thanks also to Sinner's hesitation, turned the score to 6-5 by serving for the set. The error remains at 0, Khachanov closes on 7-5 After nearly an hour of play, he won the first set.
Everything is ready in Madrid for the start of the match between them Yannick Siner H Karen Khachanov. After warming up, the Italian will face his Russian counterpart for a place in the quarter-finals of the Masters 1000 tournament in the Spanish capital.
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