Ehe Spanish tennis has not been able to make a good debut in the main draw of Indian Wells, the first Masters 1000 of the season. Pablo Andujar has been overtaken by the Italian Fabio Fognini in three sets (6-3, 3-6 and 3-6).
Andújar scored the first set despite giving up his serve at the first change and go to tow until the initial 1-3. He then scored five games in a row and closed out the set with his second set point.
Fognini recovered in the second round and achieved a premature break in the second game that, in the end, was decisive.
Already in the final set, a new break in the fifth game was an insurmountable wall for Andújar, who ended up giving up his serve a fourth and last time on the second match ball of the transalpine tennis player.
Andújar, who reached the round of 16 in the so-called ‘big fifth’ of tennis in 2012, when he fell to Novak Djokovicfalls for the fifth time in six games against Fognini, who has also not passed the eighth in the first Masters 1000 of 2022.
georgian tennis player Nikoloz Basilashvili will be Fognini’s rival in the second round.
