Davis Cup: Lorenzo Sonego’s masterpiece, Italy beats Chile

Davis Cup: Lorenzo Sonego’s masterpiece, Italy beats Chile

In the second singles of the match between Italy and Chile at the Unipol Arena in Bologna, Lorenzo Sonego beat Nicolas Jarry, number 22 in the world and therefore 16 positions ahead of him, on a comeback in the midst of an authentic bedlam of cheers, with a score of 3-6 7-5 6-4, cancelling four match points. The Azzurri thus won the challenge 2-0 and in the doubles can bring home another very important point for the group standings.

Sonego immediately loses serve in the first game of the match and in the third saves three break points, the first two of which are consecutive. He saves another in the fifth and another in the non, which è also a set point, but on the second è forced to surrender the partial.

The second set opened with Sonego finally placing three great answers and snatching the serve from Jarry keeping the lead until 4-2, then in the eighth game he returned the break thanks also to a couple of lucky points of the Chilean. In the tenth game Lorenzo saves four match points, holds serve and in the next game è he snatches it from Jaime Fillol’s nephew to then close out the set and take the match to the third.

At 1-1 Jarry goes 40-0 up on his own serve, gets caught up and then has another 2-1 ball, but è the 28-year-old from Turin breaks at the first opportunity. At 5-3 Sonego has two match points on his opponent’s serve, doesn’t take advantage of them but then closes the match after two hours and 43 minutes of battle by holding the serve to zero.

“I am delighted to have brought the point home, I really gave my soul. È always a’thrill to play in the Davis Cup, I was good to pull this match up because’the opponent was really strong. We stuck together, we are all friends and we know we can beat anyone, this team spirit gives us so much strength”.