Tennis News: Felix Auger Aliassime defended as hard as he could and finished convincingly to pass the opener of the Florence Open, Florence 2022 season.
The first seed had to fight hard to claim a 6-4, 6-7, 6-2 victory over Germany’s Oscar Otte in the second round of the Florence Open.
Otte came from 1-3 down in the second set to equalize after the Canadian struggled to maintain a convincing start, but the Canadian began to dictate the game with a powerful forehand once again in the decider. He beat the German twice in the third set to advance to his 13th quarter-final of the 2022 season.
“It was a pretty convincing start,” Auger Aliassime said. “I had an awesome first set and came in the middle of the second. So sometimes it’s tennis, you get a little nervous. Of course I wanted to finish the match in straight sets, but the most important thing was that I was able to come back and play some good games in the third set.”
The first seed hit 42 winners, including 13 aces in the first encounter against Otte.
Auger Aliassime’s next opponent at the Florence Open will be Brandon Nakashima after the United States beat Turkey’s Altug Celikbilek 6-3, 6-4.
The quarter-final match will be a crucial one for Nakashima as he tries to increase his chances of qualifying for the Next Gen ATP Finals for the second time in a row. Currently, he is in sixth position in the ATP Race to Milan rankings.
In other action, the host’s tennis player stalwart, Lorenzo Musetti showed a capable performance for the home crowd after shutting down Spaniard, Bernabe Zapata Miralles with 6-3, 6-0.
Musetti showed confidence in all aspects of his game and he hit a number of winners to finish and beat Zapata Miralles in just 69 minutes of their first encounter.
Musetti will meet American Mackenzie McDonald in the quarter-finals of the Florence Open after the American dashed the hopes of Francesco Passaro in a 6-4, 7-5 victory, a 95-minute battle to send him off in the third quarter-finals of the 2022 season.
Tags: Tennis, Florence Open, Felix Auger Aliassime, Oscar Otte, Lorenzo Musetti, Brandon Nakashima
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