• 29-year-old Carbajes Baena, after losing the first set, in which Berretini was the lead, eliminated the disadvantage of the break in the second, earning the opportunity to fight in the deciding set in a dramatic tiebreak.
• In the third set of the match in Florence, second-seeded Berretini took an apparently decisive 5-2 lead. With the score of 5-3 and 30-0 in favor of the Italian, Carbajes Baena regained his inner strength, reacted and dominated long games, winning five straight games in the third set.
• In one of the most brilliant successes of his career, Carbaez-Baena converted all (!) And five break points, demonstrating a persistent fight in defense. In the third set of the match Berretini made more and more unforced errors with several inaccurate forehands.
• Karbajes Baen will face qualifying winner Mikael Imer (ATP 99) from Sweden, who dominated the first and third sets in the round of 16 against Russian Aslan Karatsev (ATP 39).
• Naturalized Kazakh player Alexander Bublik (43rd ATP) and American Jeffrey John Wolfe (75th ATP) will face each other in another quarter-final, which overtook French athlete Corentin Moutte (69th ATP) and fourth number of the Florence tournament, respectively in two sets: the American Maximus Cressy (33rd ATP).
• In the remainder of the first round duel, Mackenzie Macdonald (ATP 79) unexpectedly defeated (6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 1) another American, Jenson Brooksby (ATP 42).
Round of 16 of the ATP 250 Tournament in Florence
| The game | The result |
|---|---|
| Félix Auger-Aliasim [1.] – Oskar Ote | |
| Brandon Nakashima [8.] – Altugis Čelikbilek [Q] | |
| Lorenzo Muzeti [3.] – Bernabé Zapata Mirajes | |
| Mackenzie MacDonald – Francesco Passaro [WC] | |
| Alexander Bublik [7.] – Quarantine in the Mouth | 7: 5; 6: 4 |
| Jeffrey John Wolfe – Maxim Cressy [4.] | 6: 3; 6: 4 |
| Michele Imer [Q] – Aslan Karatsev [5.] | 6: 1; 6: 7 (6); 6: 1 |
| Roberto Karbajess Baena – Mateo Beretini [2.] | 5: 7; 7: 6 (5); 7: 5 |
• In a similar tournament in the Spanish city of Gijón, Austrian Dominique Thiem (ATP 165), the former number three in the world ranking and winner of the “Grand Slam” tournament, played an impressive deciding set (6: 0) in the round of 16 against USA representative Marcos Giron (ATP 62).
• In Gijón only a couple of quarter-finals are currently known: in it, second-seeded Spanish Pablo Carreño Busta (15th ATP) will face French athlete Artur Rindernech (56th ATP). who convincingly defeated his compatriot Konstans Lestjens (63rd ATP) in the round of 16.
• American Tommy Paul (30th ATP) also passed the crossbar in the round of 16, beating 21-year-old Spaniard Nicolas Alvarez Varona (231st ATP), who played in qualifying, in two sets.
Round of 16 of the ATP 250 tournament in Gijon
| The game | The result |
|---|---|
| Andrei Rublev [1.] – Ilya Ivaška | |
| Tommy Paolo [5.] – Nicolas Alvarez Varona [Q] | 6: 3; 7: 6 (3) |
| Francisco Serundolo [4.] – Manuel Guiard [Q] | |
| Domenico Thiem – Marco Giron | 3: 6; 6: 4; 6: 0 |
| Andy Murray [WC] – Pedro Cachin | |
| Roberto Bautista Aguts [3.] – Sebastian Korda | |
| Pablo Karen Busta [2.] – Tjagu Monteiru | 6: 4; 7: 6 (3) |
| Arthur Rindernech – Constant Lestien | 6: 4; 6: 2 |
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