After the uninspiring performances of the first two rounds of the US Open, Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer respectively number 1 and number 3 in the ATP rankings, resume playing as they know and for their opponents at Flushing Meadows there is little to do. The possibility of a new challenge between the two is therefore getting closer and closer. In the matches of the night, the Spaniard number 1 in the world got rid of Leonardo Mayer, who had lost in qualifying and was fished out of the draw by virtue of Murray's retirement. The Majorcan had to sweat four sets, because the Argentine gave his best especially in the first part of the match when he managed to win the first set and fought up to 3-3 in the second. Then it almost seems to witness another match, Nadal takes the measures and without problems, although in 3 hours and 20 minutes of the match, he goes straight to victory, with the final score of 6-7 6-3 6-1 6-4 . In the second round the good but discontinuous Dolgopolov awaits him, number 67 in the world ranking. Federer went even smoother towards victory with Feliciano Lopez, a not irresistible opponent, silenced in an hour and 48 minutes with the result of 6-3 6-3 7-5. The Swiss champion, unlike what we saw in the first two rounds, in which to get the best of his opponents he had to sweat in both cases for 5 long sets, tonight he appeared in good athletic shape and closed the match without much effort. . Now the German Kohlschreiber, number 47 in the world, awaits him in the second round.
In the New York afternoon (22:45 pm in Italy) the match that interests us most closely. The Roman tennis player, naturalized "Sienese", Paolo Lorenzi (n. 36 ATP) the only Italian surviving the US Open 2017, will meet the South African Kevin Anderson, currently number 32 in the ATP ranking, after having managed to reach the tenth place at the end of 2015 place.
Lorenzi came to the knockout, knocking in the Fabbiano 3 blue derby set to zero, while the South African always beat 3-0 Coric.
Paolo Lorenzi is currently the sixth Italian ever to reach the round of 1977 at the United States Open after Corrardo Barazzutti (the only one to go further, up to the semifinals, in 1978), Adriano Panatta (1994), Gianluca Pozzi (2005) , Davide Sanguinetti (2015) and Fabio Fognini (XNUMX).
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