the aussie Eighth-seeded Alex De Minaur defeated Mexican teenager Rodrigo Pacheco 6-1, 6-2 on Tuesday and agreed to the second round of the Mexican Tennis Open.
Although he was broken on the first serve in the opening set, De Minaur hit the second well; broke in the opening game and finished with four consecutive game winners to win the set in 42 minutes.
In the second, the Australian was patient, taking advantage of the 17-year-old’s unforced errors. and, although he was down a break point in Game 7, he defended well and broke in Game 8 to win.
After the defeat of Carlos Alcaraz, the first favorite, and the British Cameron Norriefifth, De Minaur, was the only seed who played on Tuesday.
Among the best of the day are the victory of the Italian Mateo Berrettini, twenty-fourth in the world ranking, 6-0, 1-0 against the Slovak Alex Molcanretired due to injury.
Berrettini won 100 percent of first serve pointsshowed variety in his shots and from the opening game he imposed conditions with rest.
Molcan, 57th in the world, was limited by a wrist problem, which made way for the Italian in the second round he will face Swede Elias Ymer.
Ymer, who entered the main draw as a ‘lucky loser’ in place of Norrie, beat Frenchman Adrian Mannarino 5-7, 6-3, 6-4; after losing the first set, the Swede set conditions on his serve.
For Mateo it was an emotional day. Some time after his victory, his brother Jacopo eliminated German Oscar Otte in his first match in an ATP main draw3-6, 7-6(3), 2-1 until he retired.
The youngest of the Berrettini will play the Portuguese Nuno Borges in the stage of the best 16who beat American Nick Chappel 6-3, 7-6(3).
In other parties this Tuesday the American Brandon Nakashima beat Daniel Altmair of Germany 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 and his compatriot Mackenzie McDonald eliminated Italian Luciano Darderi, a ‘lucky loser’ entering the tournament for Alcaraz, 6-4, 6-2.
This Wednesday the second round will be played, where the Norwegian Casper Rudd, second seed, will face the Japanese Taro DanielAmerican Tylor Fritz, seeded third, to Canadian Denis Shapovalov and Danish Holger Rune, third seed, to Nuno Borges, among other duels.
Source: La Verdad
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