The Spanish star Carlos Alcaraz returned to the competition from a Adductor injury, and on Friday, the Serbian qualifying 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 in the 64 rounds of Bnl D’Italia in Rome in Rome had little problems.
Alcaraz kidnapped Madrid Open in his own country to listen to the injury last month and wore knee wrap on Friday. Nevertheless, the seed number 3, ATP’s best 25th win of the season in an hour notched in 22 minutes.
“The body feels great,” Alcaraz said. “I moved well and today I made a few good sprints without any pain, and this was great. It was a test for me and I think I passed the test. I tried to feel more comfortable in court – I didn’t think of movement and injury.”
Alcaraz fired the 24 winners of Lajovic 13 and won 26 out of 36 first service points (72.2 percent). Lajovic faced Alcaraz’s service only once and faced 10 break points and could not save six savings.
To go, Alexander Zverev, the number 2 seed and defense champion, Germany, Argentina’s Camilo Ugo Carabelli 6-2, 6-1 passed in 66 minutes. Zvev finished with a large 20-4 advantage for total winners and won 20 (76.9 percent) from 26 points on the net.
The British Fifth Seed Jack Draper fired seven acers without double error and saved the seven breaking points against the Italian Luciano Darderi 6-1, 6-4 wins. Draper was the second in Madrid after winning the first ATP Masters 1000 championship at Indian Wells earlier this year.
“I knew it would be difficult after the last two weeks.” Draper said Draper. He said. “I put a lot of energy to it, so when it came to different conditions, a different environment, I had to quickly adapt to a good player in a different atmosphere.
Italian fans were treated with Lorenzo Musetti, the number 8 of the Finnish qualification Otto Virdaen, 6-2, who was interested in 6-2. The biggest sadness of the day, Bulgarian 14th Seed Grigor Dimitrov 7-5, 6-3, the Italian, Joker Card Francesco Passaro’yu preferred.
9 Seed Seed Holger Rune, Argentina’s Francisco Comoran’ı 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, while the number 10 of Russia, Daniil Medvedev, the British lucky lost Cameron Norrie 6-4, 6-2 filled.
Other winners include seed 13 Arthur Fils, Seed 18 Stefanos Tssitsipas, No. 23 Russian seed Karen Khachanov, 24 seeds Alexei Popyrin from Australia, Vilius Gaubas of Lithuania, Laslo Djere and Czech qualifying Vitriva.
28. The American Brandon Nakashima, the seed, proceeded by walking after the withdrawal of Australia Jordan Thompson. In addition, French Corentin Moulet, Countryman and 21. Seed Ugo Humbert retired due to a permanent hand injury was 6-3, 4-0 ahead.
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