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The 30-year-old Lithuanian, who is ranked 72nd in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) ranking in the third round, the eighth final, on Friday at 1:00 p.m. 21 min. 4: 6, 2: 6 lost to 27-year-old Czech Jiri Vesely (ATP-69).
In this meeting, which was briefly suspended due to rain, the Lithuanian made 3 irresistible passes (J. Vesely – 8) and committed 5 double errors (Czech – 0).
This was the third meeting between these players and Vesely’s second victory.
The fight was supposed to take place on Thursday, but due to a positive COVID-19 test imposed on an employee of one of the hotels where the tennis players are staying, all games were postponed to Friday.
In the first round R. Berankis 6: 2, 6: 2 crushed India’s Sumita Nagala (ATP-138), 23, and in the second 7: 6 (7-2), 7: 5 defeated Australian Jason Kubler (ATP-263), 27 years old.
For the second round, Berankis received 20 ATP qualification points and $ 5,500.
In the first round of the two races, R. Berankis with Kazakh Mikhail Kukushkin was 3: 6, 4: 6 behind Britons Cameron Norrie and Jonny O’Mara.
The prize pool for the Melbourne tournament is 320,775 thousand. AMERICAN DOLLAR.
The spells for the prestigious Australian Open, which kicks off next week, were also raffled off on Friday. They determined that in the first round R. Berankis would play the same ship S. Nagalu.
In case of victory, in the second stage, the Lithuanian would have to play with the winner of the pair of the Russian Karen Kačanov (ATP-19) and the Australian Aleksandras Vukičius (ATP-195).
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