MADRID, 16 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish tennis player Pedro Martínez has said goodbye in the first round of the tournament in Lyon (France), in the ATP 250 category and played on clay, after falling to the Japanese Yosuke Watanuki in three sets (6-7(2), 6- 4, 6-2).
The Valencian, current number 43 in the world, took the lead in the match by winning the first set in the ‘tie-break’, after both tennis players exchanged two breaks.
However, he gave up his first serve of the second set and was unable to reverse the stumble. In the third and final set, the man from Alzira fell again with his serve twice and confirmed his defeat after two hours and 44 minutes of play.