The French Arthur Filsfourth seed, and Alexandre Mullerthe British Cameron Norrie and the Japanese Kei Nishikori they reached the quarterfinals of the tournament in Hong Kongof the ATP 250 category and played on hard court.
Norrieformer world number 8 and currently ranked 49th, eliminated Italian Lorenzo Sonego in three sets (6-2, 4-6 and 6-1). To do this, he used his few unforced errors and the few break options he gave, only three in the whole match, two of them in the tenth game of the second set where he gave one.
In its part, The Phils He won 7-6(7) and 6-4 against Belgian Zizou Bergs, a tennis player who participated by invitation and even had a set point in the tie break of the first after the Frenchman missed three of consecutive opportunities. game stage. In the second set, a winner’s break in the ninth, when the match was 4-4 after a break for both, decided the match.
In the case of Müller, He played a very close match against Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic (5-7, 7-6(6) and 7-6(10)) that lasted three and a half hours. In the first round everything remained even until the ninth game, when the Serbian completed the first of three consecutive breaks between the two that eventually earned him the win.
Something similar happened in the second stage of the confrontation, when two breaks appeared in the eleventh and twelfth games. It forced a tie-break which the Frenchman took on his second set point. The third was decided by a new sudden death that could have been won by anyone, as Kecmanovic had two match points and Muller had four, taking advantage of the second of them to win 12-10.
The day ended with the triumph of Kei Nishikori now number 106 in the world although he reached number 4, over Russian Kharen Kachanov, third seed, also in three sets (4-6, 6-3 and 7-5). The Japanese, who started the match by holding his serve and lost the first set, came back in the second, where he also started with a break match that resolved the rest of the fourth and eighth games.
In the third and final set, both tennis players have only one break option each. Khachanov wasted his in the second game and Nishikori took advantage of his advantage in the eleventh to close out the match in favor and face Norrie in the next round. On the other hand, the paths of Fils and Muller will also cross.
Source: La Verdad
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