Australian Open – Berrettini is there: Kozlov beaten in 4 sets, he will have Alcaraz

It was not easy, it almost never is, but in days like this, only the result counts and the result says that Matteo Berrettini is in the third round of the Australian Open and that his match in the John Cain Arena lasted 2 hours and 38 minutes against the opponent you hardly expect: 23-year-old American Stefan Kozlov, number 167 ATP in his first Grand Slam participation, scored on his debut against Vesely.

In the first set the American does not enter the game, contracted and submissive, suffering passively the broadsides of Berrettini from behind the writing Melbourne. Ours slips like this 7 consecutive games without encountering resistance. However, the worst moment of Berrettini’s match begins on 6-1 and 2 balls of 3-1, who, defective without supports, sends the American to the break in the seventh game.

Stefan, which is named for the passion Edberg of dad-coach Andrei (Macedonian Russian, who emigrated to the States at the sunset of the Soviet Union) e has a brother named Boris as Becker, has personality because without in the next game 4 balls of the counter-break are not canceled, one of which with the first short ball of the match. A full confidence that allows Kozlov to go back still from 15/30 serving for the set won 6-4 with signing out.