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Stan Wawrinka defeats Daniel Evans in the first round of the ATP 250 tournament in Saint Petersburg in 3 sets played.
Stan Wawrinka repeatedly returned to the game verbally against the strong world number 34, Daniel Evans. With a score of 3: 6, 5: 6, Romand defended themselves from 3 match points with their own serve and released a loud “Let’s go!” Consequences. Shortly thereafter, he secured the equalization of the set in a convincing tiebreaker.
At the beginning of the third set, Wawrinka had to give up his serve again, but then the three-time Grand Slam winner appeared. With direct offensive tennis he achieved 2 breaks in a row to make it 5: 2, victory was within his reach.
Turn of the turn
But, as is often the case with “Marathon-Stan”, the mistakes suddenly reappeared on the home straight. The ensuing service game was rendered nil, the last forehand flying somewhere in the (sparsely occupied) spectator stands.
But his British counterpart was no longer immune from mistakes. Out of nowhere, he gave Wawrinka a match ball at the front of the net with a masked backhand. And he was there: A quick comeback and a forehand later was the victory of Wawrinkas 3: 6, 7: 6 (7: 3), 7: 5 after 2:31 hours in the dry.
Bad start block
In the first set Wawrinka had to pay tribute to his aggressive play. A total of 13 accumulated inadvertent errors (versus 2 by Evans). One of these errors brought him the early loss of serve to 1: 2, in the end he even gave up his serve to zero. His last forehand sailed meters behind the baseline, as he did later in the third set.
In the second round, Wawrinka faces Russia’s Evgeni Donskoi (ATP 121). This one prevailed before the Belarusian Egor Gerasimow (ATP 85) 6: 4, 7: 6.
