Australian Open 2024, Bonadio and Napolitano also advance in the qualifiers. Brancaccio outside

At home Italy ends with a perfectly balanced budget, with 6 victories and as many defeats the first day of Australian Open 2024 tennis qualifiers: in the Italian morning they are added to the among the blues who advance to second round Also Riccardo Bonadio and Stefano Napolitanoas he comes eliminated Raul Brancaccio.

Riccardo Bonadio, number 222 ATP, defeats the Australian wild card Pavle Marinkov, 932 ATP, with the score of 7-5 7-6 (2) in two hours of play, and in the second round he will face the Argentine Ugo Carabelli (31st seed in the cadet draw). In the first set there is an exchange of breaks at the start, then in the final stages everything happens: in the tenth game the blue cancels two set points and saves himself with the advantage, then in the eleventh game comes the break in favor of Bonadio, still at advantages, with the Italian tennis player going 0-30 down in the twelfth game and then winning four points in a row to close at 7-5 after 49 minutes. In the second half the blue is forced to chase, due to the break suffered in the fourth game. Bonadio finds the counterbreak in the seventh game, but in the eighth he gives up serve again. New counterbreak in the ninth game, then the hook comes in the tenth. Bonadio doesn’t take advantage of three break points in the eleventh game and so we go to the tie break: from 3-2 the blue wins four consecutive points and closes at 7-2 after 71 minutes.

Stefano Napolitano, 229 ATP, defeats Moldovan Radu Albot, seeded number 23 in the qualifiers, with a double 7-5, gained in two hours of play. In the second round for the Italian there will be the German Rudolf Molleker. In the first set the blue starts well and immediately escapes to a comfortable 3-0, thanks to the break at fifteen in the second game. Napolitano goes to serve for the set in the ninth game but finds himself down 0-40 and then gives up serve on the third occasion. In the twelfth game, however, the Italian took the lead at 0-30 in response and then went to set point at 30-40, taking advantage of the opportunity and closing on 7-5 after 52 minutes. In the second set Napolitano missed a break point in the second game and then gave up the serve in the third, but found the immediate counterbreak in the fourth. The blue player gets out of trouble on serve both in the seventh game, when he comes back from 0-40 by canceling four break points overall, and in the ninth, when he cancels a further break point. Once again Napolitano gets the decisive break in the twelfth game, winning the last four points played in response and closing on 7-5 after 68 minutes of play.

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Raul Brancaccio, 261 ATP, however, clearly lost to the Dutchman Jesper de Jong, number 148 in the world, who prevailed 6-1 6-2 in an hour of play. In the first set the blue holds the serve only in the second game, then gives up serve both in the fourth game, at thirty, and in the sixth, at fifteen, so the Dutchman closes at 6-1 after 31 minutes. In the second half Brancaccio suffers a break after taking advantage of the third game, then in the fifth game he cancels a break point. The second break in favor of de Jong, however, reached fifteen in the seventh game, with the Dutchman then closing the score at 6-2 in 29 minutes of play.

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2024-01-09 09:29:07
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