Black Tuesday for blue tennis: Arnaldi also eliminated at Paris-Bercy
Holger Rune-Matteo Arnaldi 6-4 6-4
Black Tuesday for Italian tennis at the Paris-Bercy Masters 1000. After the forfeit of Jannik Sinner due to a virus, and the defeats of Lorenzo Musetti, who was knocked out in two sets by German Jan-Lennard Struff (4-6 2-6), and Matteo Berrettini, who surrendered in two sets to Australian Alexei Popyrin (5-7 6-7), Matteo Arnaldi è was also eliminated from the 'Rolex Paris Masters'.
The Ligurian tennis player, in fact, had to surrender to the Danish Holger Rune, number 13 in the seeding and in the ATP ranking, who è imposed himself in two sets with the final score of 6-4 6-4 after an hour and a half of play and reached the sixteenth finals of the Paris tournament.
Arnaldi actually started better but squandered four break points between the second and fourth games. Rune punished him on the most beautiful: in the ninth game the Dane took advantage of the set's only break point, went up 5-4 and service and made the first partial his own 6-4.
In the second set to condemn the blue è a bloody double fault in the fifth game with which he cedes service to Rune. The Dane thanked, kept the break advantage and filed the case on the second match point on the final 6-4. After Arnaldi’s defeat, there is no Italian player left on the scoreboard at the 'Paris Rolex Masters'.
