Jesper de Jong said goodbye to 1000 masters from Rome last week. The Dutch player, as 93 in the world, fell in the final cycle of the previous stage against Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild 7-6 (5), 6-4, but a wave of casualties allowed him to ‘Rinag’ and have a second chance.
Together with Pablo Carreño and Benjamin Bonzi, he is one of three players, and will go if he took advantage of it. He beat Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko in the first round 6-2, 6-4 and This Saturday gave a real repetition against Alejandro Davidovich, which he confirmed by endorsing a blunt 6-0, 6-2.
Malaga, as 26 of the world, fits into one of the most difficult beatings of his career in a rivalry that lasted only one hour. Less than half an hour is a first set where all of his services disappeared and where he missed up to 3 breakage breaks to contradict and make a disaster.
After falling in honor of German Alexander Zverev in Madrid, forcing ‘TIE-BREAK’ to the third set, He did not show a battle before a lower level of the player.
He searched the reaction to the second sent and broke a service. But it got anything because he surrendered to his next three services to prove a defeat that did not match the level he had shown throughout 2025, more consistent, more accurate and more regular than the rest of his career.
To the third rotation, De Jong will face the winner of the rivalry between Jannik Sinner, number 1 in the world, and the Argentine Mariano NavoneNumber 99.
In this way, Davidovich became the third Spanish that fell to the second twist after Roberto Bautista’s defeat against American Tommy Paul and Pedro Martínez against the Polish Hurt Hurkacz.
In the second twist you still need to play Jaume Munar. Carlos Alcaraz is in the third Ronda after winning Serbian Dusan Lajovic.
Source: La Verdad
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