Matteo Arnaldi advances in Montreal, Luciano Darderi succumbs again to Tommy Paul

Masters 1000 Montreal: Arnaldi advances, Darderi eliminated

Matteo Arnaldi gets off on the right foot in the Montreal Masters 1000. The Ligurian tennis player, in fact, defeated in comeback the American qualifier Mackenzie McDonald, number 93 in the world, with the final score of 4-6 6-4 6-4 after two hours and twenty-two minutes of play, accessing the second round where he will find; Karen Khachanov, the sixteenth seed in the seeding.

Arnaldi started off strong (3-0) but was immediately recovered by McDonald (3-3) who in the final set even signed the overtake (6-4), thanks to the surgical break in the ninth game. Opposite trend in the second partial with the U.S. ahead by a break (3-2), but reached and remounted by the blue (6-4). In the third partial Arnaldi flies on 4-1 but is caught again on 4-4: here forò the Ligurian string two consecutive games, closing the accounts.

Nothing to do instead for Luciano Darderi. The Italian-Argentine surrenders again to Tommy Paul, who had eliminated him from the Paris Olympic Games. The U.S., No. 10 in the seeding and No. 12 in the ATP rankings, è won in two sets with a final score of 6-4 7-6 after one hour and three quarters of play.

In the first set to make the difference è a break, obtained by Paul in the fifth game and preserved until the final 6-4. Second partial was very balanced and decided only by the tie-break, dominated forò by the American who won it 7 points to 2.