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The Eastern European Tennis Championship continues in Belgrade (Serbia), in the second stage in which the best Lithuanian player also participates. Ričardas Berankis (ATP-72)On Wednesday, in the group leaders’ duel, a 30-year-old Lithuanian will fight for 1 hour and 55 minutes. 6: 7 (4: 7), 3: 6 did not resist 28-year-old Bosnian Mirza Basic (ATP-309)
In the first set, a duel of equal rivals continued for a long time. In the first seven games, neither player had a break point. When the set came to an end, both players had a little more trouble with their tickets. In the eighth game, the Lithuanian didn’t notice the break pointo, and in the ninth game, the Bosnian also wasted that opportunity. In the eleventh game, M. Bašičius had a “break point” again, but came to the edge. I finally had to play an extension. The Lithuanian started very badly, lost two points in his innings and was 1: 4 behind. M.Bašičius soon lost the ball he played, but kept the remaining advantage until the end of extra time.
End of extension:
In the second set, as in the first set, neither player had a “break point” in the first seven games. The situation changed unfavorably for R. Berankis in the eighth game, when he was behind 3:40 pm. The Lithuanian neutralized a break point, but then followed his unprovoked error and the Lithuanian was 3: 5 behind.
The ninth game was very changeable. R.Berankis took the lead 30: 0 at first, but already had to chase the opponent here (30:40). Bosnis was unable to finish the game with a point, and Berankis got a “break point” opportunity. The Lithuanian had a good chance of attacking, but then hit the net. Later, another almost identical mistake by R.Bankis followed, and M.Bašičius did not waste his second chance to win the match.
End of the ninth game:
Previously, R.Berankis and M.Bašičius had met up to 7 times. 5 of those matches were won by a Lithuanian and 2 by a Bosnian. 2014 In the Davis Cup match, the Lithuanian lost the first two sets, but made an impressive recovery and won the 5-set thriller. However, M.Bašičius also has an important victory in mutual confrontations. 2015 In the final of the Challenger tournament in Italy, he beat the Lithuanian. 6: 4, 3: 6, 7: 6 (7: 4).
M.Bašičius in 2018 He had risen to 74th in the ATP unit ranking, but last season was not very successful for him. Bosnis, like the Lithuanian, won 5 of 6 matches before the match in the Eastern European Championship.
In the first stage, last week a Lithuanian 6: 3, 6: 1 defeated a 20-year-old Frenchman Luke Pavlovich (ATP-963) and 6: 3, 6: 3 outnumbered the 12th Serbian rocket from the previous world, 34-year-old Serb Victor Troicki (ATP-184) After these matches, R. Berankis secured first place in the group, and in the match he took nothing against the Serbian Boris Butulius (ATP-1312) remained on the card for only 13 minutes and lost 0: 2.
At the start of the second leg on Monday, R. Berankis in just 42 minutes. 6: 0, 6: 1 “Swept away” the 19-year-old Serb Mark Miladinovich (ATP-466) and Tuesday for 1 hour 26 minutes 6: 4, 6: 4 defeated a 27-year-old Croat Matthew Sabanov (ATP-891)
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