Sonego fights but does not reach, Tsitsipas in Miami Masters 1000 quarterfinals



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An excellent Lorenzo Sonego yields to a perfect Stefanos Tsitsipas. This could be enough to sum up the match between the 25-year-old Turin and the 22-year-old Greek. The balance of power between the two at the moment are these, and indeed one is number 34 and the other is number 5 in the world. If everyone plays their best, there is no story.

However, Sonego has nothing to blame himself for. In his first round of eight out of a thousand on hard court, he made life very difficult at Tsitsipas. especially in the second set, in which he did not even concede a break point to the opponent, but then abruptly succumbed to the tiebreaker.

Too bad for a bit shy start in the first set, lost 6-2. “The start was slow – Sonego said at the end of the game – also because it was the first time I was playing with the evening lights and it took me a while to get used to it. In the second set I grew a lot in service and played excellent tennis ”. Serve effectiveness was the key to the match, with Tsitsipas ultimately winning 89% of points with the first on the field, against Sonego’s 68%.

Now for Sonego, an increasingly stable frequenter of the higher areas of the ranking, the European season opens on clay. Objective: to play (and win) as much as possible: “Obviously we will have to see how many games I will play in each tournament, so if there are many there will be the possibility of canceling me, but now let’s start immediately with Cagliari and Monte Carlo and we will see how much I can play until Paris ”.

For Tsitsipas, however, the appointment is for Thursday, April 1, with the quarterfinals against Hubert hurkacz, who in his round of 16 eliminated Milos Raonic.

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