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The ATP 250 series Murray River Open men’s tennis tournament continues in Melbourne, Australia, with 30-year-old Lithuanian Riardardas Berankis (ATP-72) in the second round of the competition in 1 hour. 55 min. 7: 6 (7: 2), 7: 5 broke the Australian who received the nominal invitation to the tournament Jasoną Kublerį (ATP-263). These tennis players had never played each other before.
R. Berankis started the first game “breaking” the opponent, but already in the sixth game he lost his series of passes for the first time this season and the score became 3: 3. Later, the players won their passes with confidence and the game went to an extension, which was already dominated by R. Berankis. The Lithuanian won 6 points in a row and although he made a mistake in one of his passes, he finally finished the set by winning extra time 7: 2.
R. Berankis started the second set well again and went ahead 3: 0, and in the eighth game he had two great opportunities to finish the match, but he did not take advantage of them, and in the ninth game, during his passes, he did not. Take advantage of that opportunity three times and the result was the same: 5: 5. However, at the decisive moment, the Lithuanian was not wrong and in the twelfth game “dry” he “broke” his opponent and achieved a difficult victory.
Berankis, who was victorious, collected 20 ATP points and $ 5,500, and will face the Czech in the third round. Jiri vesely (ATP-69).
R. Berankis also played doubles for Melbourne. In the first round, a duo of Lithuanian and Kazakh Mikhail Kukushkin 3: 6, 4: 6 landed on the British Cameron Norrie and Jonny O’Mara.
The prize fund for the ATP 250 series men’s tennis tournament in Melbourne amounts to 320,775 thousand. AMERICAN DOLLAR. For R. Berankis, this will be the last stage of preparation before the prestigious Australian Open.
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