Day of surprises this Monday at the Adelaide tournament. Felix Auger-Aliassime and Holger Rune bid farewell to the competition for the first time after losing their first round duels against Australian Alexei Popyrin (6-4, 7-6(5)) and Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka (2-6, 6-4, 6-4) respectively.
The Canadian, second seeded, He was surprised by his rival’s push, more shots after passing the previous stage. Despite her reaction in the second set, Auger-Aliassime was unable to play her best tennis and ended up losing the match in the tiebreaker.
Rune’s defeat hurts even morewho had a good start to the game (2-6) but faded as the games went by against an overwhelming Nishioka who got everything he tried.
In other matches of the day, Quentin Halys defeated Jordan Thompson (6-3, 6-4)Roman Safiullin over Mikael Ymer (6-4, 6-2) and Miomir Kecmanovic over Christopher O’Connell (6-4, 6-4).
The debuts of Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev are for this Tuesday. The Russian will open the day at 1 am Spanish time against Lorenzo Sonego, while the Russian will next play Constant Lestienne. In the morning (08:30 am) Roberto Bautista will debut before Andrey Rublev.
Source: La Verdad
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