ATP Dubai: Lorenzo Sonego out with head held high, Stefanos Tsitsipas emerges in the distance

Grit not enough for Lorenzo Sonego: he passes Stafanos Tsitsipas

Already stops in the first round the path of lorenzo Sonego in the ATP 500 tournament in Dubai. The Piedmontese tennis player, in fact, è was defeated by Stefanos Tsitsipas, number 4 seed and number 11 in the world rankings, although his performance was to be applauded: the Greek è in fact, emerged only at a distance, in a match that for an hour and a half had been decidedly balanced.

The final score è 7-6(4), 6-3, with Tsitsipas and Sonego giving life to a blow-by-blow battle in the first game fraction, with the Piedmontese who failed to take advantage of three points during a tie-break in which è the 7-1 partial of the Greek was decisive, who makes the set his not without difficulty.

In the second fraction, the balance is constant until 4-3 for Tsitsipas: the ninth game, in fact, sees Sonego suffer a break that will prove decisive, since in the following game the Greek needs only one match point, at 40-0, to close the games and thus qualify for the second round of the tournament in the Emirates.

Sonego pays soì the unlucky draw, which forced him to face one of the top players on the circuit already in the first round: Tsitsipas will face, in the round of 16, with Karen Khachanov, who in turn beat the British wild card Daniel Evans with a clear 6-1, 6-3 in one hour and twenty-one minutes of play.