Granollers resigns from the individual, Munar retires against Thiem and Carballés takes Feliciano down

Marcel Granollers, who had entered the singles team thanks to the withdrawal of Benoit Paire (positive for COVID-19), decided to resign this Tuesday from his participation to be able to focus on the doubles championship, in which he has serious aspirations for the title along with Argentine Horacio Zeballos (4th in the world in the pair ranking). In fact, both are the number five seeds of the tournament.

The Plaza de Granollers will be occupied by the American Ernesto Escobedo, the next highest ranked doubles player in the individual table without a place in the draw (as there is no preliminary phase, only those in the doubles draw can be alternate players if there are casualties). He was the one who faced the Polish Kamil Majchrzak, who had already seen his rival change twice and in the end lost.

Munar retires due to injury against Thiem

A shame what happened to Jaume Munar in his match against Dominic Thiem, second favorite of the tournament and who reached the US Open after clearly losing to Krajinovic in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters. The Spanish, who had pushed the Austrian a lot in the first set (7-6 (6)) and at the beginning of the second, suffered a fall on the court just at those moments, due to an imbalance, and hit his knee, which which made playing diminished from there. Thiem won the second set 6-3 and the Spaniard decided to end his participation in the tournament. The world number three will face the Indian Sumit Nagal on Thursday.

Carballés surpasses the serve of Feliciano López

In a field theoretically favorable to the tennis of Feliciano López, great server on all surfaces and lethal on the fast track, Roberto Carballés imposed his youth and his current best form to take victory in the only Spanish duel of the first round: 3-6 , 7-6 (5), 6-4 and 6-3. Feli hit 17 aces, but could not prevent the Tenerife-born from Granada from breaking his serve four times. The Toledo could have dominated the game if he had closed the second set, but he let it slip away in the tiebreaker and Roberto came up to come back and obtain for the second time in his career a pass to the second round of the US Open (he arrived in 2018). There the American JJ Wolf awaits them, who alighted Guido Pella, recently isolated in the hotel in New York and disqualified from the Masters with controversy from the Cincinnati Masters for the positive of his physio. Feliciano ended his 73rd consecutive Grand Slam participation, an absolute record of the Open Era.

“It was the first time I played against Feli. It was a very difficult game against him on the fast track, where he is a great server and has won many games. It was tough, I had to play solid, long points to wear him down, “explained Carballés, who is expecting another difficult duel against Wolf:” I played against him in Australia and lost in three sets. You have to go game by game, although at the best of the ranking Wolf is not at the top, he has been winning games on the fast track. Being from here, it is better that there is no public, because people would go in their favor and have a plus. ”

Results of the day.