the Australian Nick Kyrgios is eligible to play in round of 16 of the tournament ATP 250 Majorca Championschipswhere he would face the Spaniards Robert Baptistafter beating Serbian on Tuesday Laslo Djere in three sets, 5-7, 7-6 (1) and 7-6 (1), after two hours and 17 minutes.
The tennis player from Canberra, assisted by twenty -four aceshave to work hard to beat the Serbian, who lost only two sets of the playoffs, on the grass court of Majorca Country Club.
Ranked 45th in the world, Kyrgios was forced to return after losing the first set the only time he lowered the serve.
The Australian took the time to develop his tennis best against an opponent who demanded more of him.
Kyrgios was able to break Djere’s serve in game five, but he didn’t and the Serb claimed the first set 7-5 in 40 minutes.
The Canberra tennis player, true to form, amused people with underhand serves and ‘Willys’ (backhand shots under the legs), but he was always serious with his strong serve.
It was definitely one of his main weapons that allowed him to level the tiebreaker score in the second set after 1 hour and 25 minutes.
Djere had his options to give the Majorcan tournament the big surprise. Kyrgios made the first double fault of the match 3-4 in favor of his rival, but resolved that difficult moment by direct serving.
Kyrgios was spotted erratic in some stages of the final heat and continued to address, not always politely, the chair manager.
Equality on the scoreboard remained until the end. Neither the Oceanian nor the Balkans gave up their respective services until the tiebreaker was reached where Kyrgios won 7-6 (1) after having five match points and, at that moment, asking for public support to be judged the twenty -fourth. direct kick.
“It was a very tough fight, Laslo was a tough competitor. With him we grew up together from junior (category), he was a great rival. I was happy with these fans and I was happy that we won , ”said Kyrgios, who predicted another“ very difficult ”match in the next round against Spaniard Roberto Bautista.
In the other result of the day, American Marcos Giron defeated the Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp 6-7 (6)-, 6-4 and 7-6 (2) and so did German Daniel Altmaier over Serbian Dusan Lajovic 7-5 and 7-6 (2).
Source: La Verdad
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