Pedro Martinez defeated this Tuesday in the first round of the Kremlin Cup to Argentine Guido Pella, that he left after falling in the first set (6-2).
Daniel Gimeno-Traver’s disciple, who this year reached the third round in three of the four Grand Slam, clearly dominated the first round of a tournament that distributes $ 700,000 in prizes.
After finishing the first set in just 49 minutes, the 31-year-old Argentine retired, without the reason being known at the moment. Martínez, number 61 in the world, He will face Serbian Filip Krajinovic in the round of 16, number 37 and fourth favorite in the Moscow tournament.
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Davidovich passes and Albert Ramos stays
The Spanish Alejandro Davidovich qualified for the second round of the tournament in Antwerp (Belgium), after winning this Tuesday by a double 6-3 the Australian Jordan Thompson, in a day in which Albert Ramos was dropped from the competition when he fell 6-3, 3-6 and 6-3 against the German Jan-Lennard Struff.
Davidovich, who this year counts as the best result the semifinals he reached in the Estoril tournament, did not give the oceanic tennis player an option, who won in one and twenty minutes of play. Especially brilliant was the tennis player from Malaga, number 44 in the world rankings, in the first set, in which he broke the Australian tennis player’s serve three times.
Alejandro Davidovich, 22, will face Chilean Cristian Garin, world number 17 and seed number three in the tournament, in the next round, who was exempt from the first round. Less fortunate was Albert Ramos, number 45 in the ATP, who fell 6-3, 3-6 and 6-3 against the German Jan-Lennard Struff, who imposed his greatest solidity in the service.
A circumstance that only allowed the Spanish tennis player to break the German’s service on one occasion throughout the game, insufficient to defeat Struff, number 50 in the world rankings.
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Sorribes, Bolsava and Masarova, goodbye in Tenerife
Sara Sorribes, 34th in the world, fell this Tuesday in her debut in the WTA 250 Tournament in Tenerife against the Russian Varvara Gracheva by 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (4). The seed number 3 of the tournament ended up yielding the match to Gracheva, number 146 in the world, in the third set, which went on to win 5-1. The Spanish could not close the sleeve and ended up falling into sudden death against the Russian in 3 hours and 27 minutes. They also did not overcome the first round Aliona Bolsava, who fell 7-6 (4), 3-6 and 6-4 against the Italian Camila Giorgi, and Rebeka Masarova, who could not with the Chinese Saisai Zheng (6-4 and 6- 2. The tournament runs out of Spaniards, as Parrizas lost on Monday to American Ann Li.
Like the Spanish, too The fifth favorite of the tournament, the Swiss Viktorija Golubic, fell to the Dutch Arantxa Rus by 6-3, 6-4. The Tenerife tournament is played on a hard surface and distributes more than $ 200,000 in prizes.
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