The AnyTech365 Andalusia Open Challenger 80you already know your first quarterfinalists. Gianluca Mager, Alessandro Giannessi, Roberto Marcora and Martin Klizan ended their matches with victory, which opens the doors to the third-to-last round of the tournament. A day with a marked Italian accent since three of the four passes that were put into play have been for tennis players from this country.
On Wednesday Manolo Santana started on the center court with the match that measured the Italian Gianluca Mager, fourth seed, and the Swede Elias Ymer. The match fell on the side of the transalpine tennis player who was much more solid with his second service; a victory that already improves Mager's performance last year, when he gave up in the second round.
In the quarterfinals he will face his compatriot Roberto Marcora that was imposed on the Latvian Ernests Gulbis; in a reissue of the match that faced them this season at the ATP 250 in Singapore. The victory was again for Marcora and with a score almost identical to that of the Asian event, 6-4; 7-5 for the Lombard.
Full day for Italian tennis with the victory of Alessandro Giannessi, the player born in La Spezia managed to defeat the fifth seed, the Portuguese Pedro Sousa by 6-4 and 6-3. With this result Italy is positioned as the clear dominator of the upper part of the table.
Slovak Martin Klizan He will be Giannessi's rival for a place in the semi-finals. The 6-title ATP champion still does not give up a set and this Wednesday the Swiss Henri Laaksonen could only make him six games.
The doubles draw closes its quarter-finals
The AnyTech365 Andalusia Open Challenger 80 it also has the eight couples that will play in the quarterfinals. The first to achieve it during the day on Wednesday were the second favorites, the Monegasque couple formed by Romain arneodo and Hugo Nys. Those of the principality, 96 and 67 of the world in this modality were imposed by a double 6-3 to the Spanish Javier Barranco Cosano and Carlos Sánchez Jover.
Another couple that enters the top eight is the one formed by the Spanish Roberto Carballés and Eduard Esteve Lobato. The locals prevailed by 7-6 (4); 6-2 to Americans Robert Galloway and Alex Lawson.
Worked victory that of the Spanish duo formed by David marrero and Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras. Marrero, former number 5 in the world rankings and winner of the Nitto ATP Finals in this modality, together with his compatriot managed to put an end to the hopes of the third seeds, the Swede Andre Goransson and the Belarusian Andrei Vasilevski.
For his part, the Serbian Danilo Petrovic and the austrian David pichler They left out the New Zealander Artem Sitak and the Spanish David Vega-Hernandez, fourth favorites.
Closing track 1, the Mexican Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela and the brazilian Fernando Romboli They eliminated by a double 6-3 the Swedish pair formed by Leo Brog and Elias Ymer, the latter could not redeem himself from their defeat in singles.
The day closed on the Manolo Santana track with an Italian-Spanish duel. Carlos Gomez-Herrera and Mario Vilella-Martinez they managed to overcome an adverse first set and take the match to the supertiebreak that fell from their side. Alessandro Giannessi and Roberto Mancora, his opponents, could not put the icing on the cake after their individual victories.
The tournament opens to the public and completes its quarterfinals
Thursday's day will have a clear protagonist and it will be the public in the stands. With limited capacity and respecting all socio-sanitary measures, the tracks of the Puente Romano Beach Resort will welcome fans again.
In the order of play, a lot of Spanish flavor among which stands out the current finalist, the Balearic and seed number 3, Jaume Munar. He will be the one who puts the finishing touch with his match against Czech Vit Kopriva. Other outstanding matches will be those that measure Damir Dzumhur (7) and Mario Vilella, Taro Daniel (6) and Carlos Gómez-Herrera, in addition to Nikola Milojevic against Maxime Janvier.
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