MADRID, Jan. 16 (SportsFinding) –
The Spanish tennis players Pablo Carreño, Albert Ramos and Feliciano López saw their respective gait at the Adelaide (Australia) and Auckland (New Zealand) tournaments, scored for the ATP and last before the Australian Open, cut after falling in the quarterfinals on Thursday. of end.
In the Australian event, neither the Spaniard Carreño nor the Catalan Ramos were able to overcome their two rivals who had qualified since the previous phase and neither of them had serious victory options.
Gijón, fourth-seeded, lost by a double 6-3 to South African Lloyd George Harris, 91 of the world who was impeccable with his service, signing 13 direct serves and without conceding a single 'break' ball to the Spanish.
Nor were things better in the same event to a Ramos who could not with the American Tommy Paul, 90 in the ATP ranking and who took the duel equally in two sleeves 6-3, 6-4 and without offering No gap with your service.
On the other hand, in Auckland, Feliciano López could not overcome his quarterfinal stumbling block, the Polish Hubert Hurkacz, sixth seed who won 6-4, 6-7 (11) and 6-4, although Toledo He took the game to three sets after saving six match balls in the 'sudden death' that decided the second set.
The Central European only conceded a break ball in the entire clash and had in his hand to sentence the Spaniard when, after winning the first quarter by 6-4, he saw a promising 6/3 in the 'tie-break' of the second. 'Feli' pulled experience to save that moment and then another three more match balls to send the game to a third sleeve where Hurkacz made the most of his break in the first game, in what was the only option of breakage that There was in the whole set.