Hard defeat for the player from Granada at the hands of an inspired Maximilian Neuchrist who was more inspired in the hot moments of the match. Roberto Carballés says goodbye to the Salzburg Challenger.
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Roberto Carballés say goodbye to Salzburg. The Andalusian tennis player fought and rowed to the shore in a match that had emotion until the end and that was resolved in a shocking tie-break in the decisive third set in favor of the Austrian giant. In this way, the local player takes revenge against a Roberto who already beat him in this same Challenger last year in three sets.
Carballés is eliminated
Things started well for a Carballés who took the first set in a very suffered way in the initial tiebreaker after a first set with continuous comings and goings on the scoreboard by both. The local tennis player began showing more inspiration with his service at the beginning of the duel, but little by little Roberto managed to assert his game from the bottom to level things. Carballés came to have a 6-5 and 40-0 in favor to close the set, but ended up needing sudden death to win a hard-fought first set.
The Austrian tennis player did not lower his arms, and managed to take the second set by taking advantage of Roberto’s slump who paid dearly for the weak level at the beginning of the second round against Neuchrist who, thanks to his good work at the service and his good game on the net, managed to equalize forces and send the match to the decisive and third leg in Salzburg. The deciding set began with the man from Granada breaking his opponent’s serve at the start of it, and it seemed that this advantage would be decisive. However, Neuchrist did not give up and managed to save a very complicated situation when he remained not to lose the match and sent the match to sudden death in the third set.
The deciding tiebreaker was not for the faint of heart, where both tennis players came to enjoy several match points on serve in different phases of the same and where finally the Austrian tennis player ended up taking a very tough battle against his people and in this way he achieved a hard-fought pass to the quarterfinals of the Salzburg Challenger.
