Tennis, Toronto, Fognini ahead with Struff, Sonego out in the first round

On the Canadian hard court the Ligurian talent, who shows up with rainbow band and cuffs after the fool at the Games, overtakes the German 6-7 (2) 6-2 6-4 in the first round. Humbert eliminates the Piedmontese 6-3 6-4

Match pulled with final victory for Fabio Fognini who began his adventure at the ATP Masters 1000 in Toronto in the best possible way by beating 6-7 (2) 6-2 6-4 the German number 46 Atp Jan-Lennard Struff. The blue, who took the field with rainbow band and cuffs to make us forget that Olympic fool in the match against Medvedev (“You’re a fag!” He shouted to himself and then apologized on social media), loses a first set is particularly painful. He breaks the German’s serve in the ninth game (thanks to two double fouls) and goes to serve for the set at 5-4. He leads 15-0, then ventures a short ball that Struff recovers and goes to the point. From there Fognini struggles, makes three bad forehand mistakes and suffers the counterbreak. The opponent misses little and nothing, he wins the next game by zero, Fabio reacts and thanks above all to excellent services he reaches the tie break. But it is a disaster between double fouls, net balls, straight outs: Struff goes 6-0 and then wins 7-2. Fognini leaves the field (stomach ache), but returns regenerated. In the second set he is a machine, he misses little and nothing, he immediately flies to 4-0 then suffers the break but goes to close comfortably 6-2. So he runs away a second time, comes back a little late and gets a warning. In the third and final set, the German is the first to break the serve, in the third game. The Ligurian talent holds up and at the end of an infinite eighth game, after five blurred break points, he takes him home for a double fault by Struff: 4-4. At 5-4 30-30 another double fault by the German on duty gives the blue the first match point: Fognini makes no mistake, Struff sends her to the net.

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Sonego out

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Lorenzo Sonego’s adventure begins and ends immediately. On the Canadian asphalt the blue, fresh from the Tokyo Games, was in fact defeated in the first round by the French Ugo Humbert in two sets (6-3 6-4). Balanced first set, decided in the fourth game, where Sonego in the service was unable to score even a point. Then we went on blow by blow, without even a break point, until the final 6-3. Definitely more drawn the second. Lorenzo is good in the seventh game to cancel Humbert’s three break points, but he loses his serve in the ninth game and ends up 5-4. The tenth game is forbidden for the faint of heart. With the Frenchman in service, Sonego goes straight to 40-0, the Frenchman sends three break points back to the sender, but that’s not all. The Turin player has two more, nothing to do. Then he rolls up his sleeves and cancels a match point, has another ball for parity but Humbert proves to have very strong nerves even at 23 years old. He gets a second match point and this time he makes no mistake.

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