Internazionali d’Italia: Fabio Fognini beats Miomir Kecmanovic and goes to the third round

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Internazionali d’Italia: Fabio Fognini beats Miomir Kecmanovic and goes to the third round

New victory for Fabio Fognini at the Internazionali d’Italia at the Foro Italico. The veteran of our tennis, after beating Andy Murray in the first round also overcame Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic with a score of 6-3 7-6 in just under two hours.

First set decided by two breaks in the first and last game in favor of the Ligurian from Arma di Taggia class of 1987, in the second the players always held serve and only Kecmanovic had to cancel break points, three, then in the tie-break Fabio had three mach points on 6-3 before finally managing to close on 8-6.

Now Fognini in the third round of the Rome Masters 1000 will most likely meet Danish Holger Rune, world number 7, who is engaged against Frenchman Arthur Fils, who came from the qualifiers and is ranked number 119.

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