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The 30-year-old Lithuanian played solidly and climbed to the second round at the first Australian Open tennis tournament of the Big Cross series in Melbourne, Australia, on Tuesday. Ričardas Berankis (ATP-72), than in 2 h. 11 min. 6: 2, 7: 5, 6: 3 defeated the 23-year-old ship Sumita Nagala (ATP-139).
In the third game, R. Berankis escaped from S.Nagal’s breakpoint four times, and in the sixth and eighth games he successfully played passing the ball to the opponent and won the first set.
In the second set, R. Berankis “broke” the opponent twice and went ahead 4-0, but then two series of lost passes followed and the intrigue returned. The twelfth game became decisive, that R. Berankis won 40:15 and after winning the opponent’s series of victories, he also won the second set.
In the third set there was a long fight and although both players were close to breaking the opponent, neither of them managed to do it in the first seven games. The eighth game became decisive, in which R. Berankis “broke” S. Nagala on the third attempt and won.
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Just over a week ago R. Berankis defeated S. Nagala himself at the Myrray River Open 6: 2, 6: 2.
In the next round, R. Berankis will meet Russian Karen Khachanov (ATP-20), who in 3 hours. 9 min. 6: 3, 6: 7 (4: 7), 7: 6 (7: 2), 6: 4 broke an australian Aleksandar Vukic (ATP-196).
R. Berankis will also participate in the doubles competition in Melbourne. In the first round Lithuanian (ATP binary-330) and Kazakh Mikhail Kukushkin (ATP doubles-76) will be won by strong opponents – 11th in the division of the Finns Henri Kontinen (ATP doubles-31) and the Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin (ATP doubles-14).
For the victory in the first round, R. Berankis obtained 45 ATP unit rating points and approximately 95 thousand. euros (150 thousand Australian dollars).
The total prize fund of the Australian Open is up to 80 million. Australian dollars (approximately 51 million euros).
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