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The ATP 1000 Series Miami Open men’s tennis tournament in Miami, USA, began on Wednesday with30-year-old Lithuanian at the start of the Ienet competition Ričardas Berankis (ATP-89) for 1 val. 22 min. 7: 6 (7: 4), 6: 2 defeated a 29-year-old Italian Federicą Gaius (ATP-142).
In the fifth and seventh games of the first set, R. Berankis won the opponent’s passing series and was ahead 5: 2. However, when the Lithuanian was able to complete the first set, R. Berankis lost two series of his passes and had to play an overtime. In it, R. Berankis once “broke” the opponent and it was enough to win the first point.
In the second set, R. Berankis settled things faster: in the sixth and eighth matches, the Lithuanian “broke” his rival and took the victory.
R. Berankis’s rival had to become one of the players who passed the rankings, but due to the retirement of some tennis players, more vacancies appeared on the main stage, so a player who lost in the ranking also entered. That player was like Gaia, so R. Berankis didn’t really have to complain about the spells.
These tennis players had already met twice and shared the victory. The first match took place in 2015, when F. Gaio won the Eckental Challenger tournament. 3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3, but in the US Open duel five years later, Berankis retaliated against the Italian and celebrated the victory with the result 7: 6 (7: 3), 4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 4. Gaio started this year at the Australian Open, where he finished in the first round. Subsequently, the Italian participated in the Challenger series, and made the best appearance in the Biella 2, where he climbed to the semifinals.
R. Berankis is playing in the ATP 1000 tournament in Miami for the eighth time in his career. He failed to qualify 3 times before and crossed the first round 4 times, so a win against Gaio would be his greatest achievement of his career at Miami tournaments.
The victorious R. Berankis obtained 25 ATP unit rating points and 16 thousand. USD, and in the second round you will meet a 30-year-old German Janu-Lennard Struffu (ATP-42). F. Gaio went to 10,000. AMERICAN DOLLAR.
The prize pool for the ATP 1000 Series Men’s Tennis Tournament in Miami amounts to nearly $ 3.344 million. AMERICAN DOLLAR.
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