The only tennis player who managed to defeat Rafael Nadal on clay last year, Dominic Thiem, was in the midst of an early drop in the first Masters on clay during the season - Monte Carlo. The 5th-placed Austrian beat Andrey Roubleov with 5:7, 7:5, 7:5 in a second-round epic battle lasting 2 hours and 40 minutes.
Repeated after the injury, Thiem was on the brink of defeat, losing 4:5 and breaking into the third set. But Rubyov did not stand and instead of putting a point in the dispute with his serve, he lost the last three games according contact with tennis picks in the game. Previously, there was only one break in the first set and it was realized in the 11th game by the Russian. In the second part again there was only one breakthrough, but his author this time was Thiem - in the last 12th game.
In the decisive third part, the 24-year-old Austrian led 4 :1, but then things were seriously confused for him. Rubley made two consecutive breakthroughs, and at 5:4 he looked very close to success, but Thiem got together and managed to get out of trouble. The Austrian even saved a match at 5:4, 40:30 for Rubley in the third set. For Team it was a second victory of two rounds against Rubley and in the third round the Austrian will meet the winner of the Serbo-Croatian clash between Novak Djokovic and Borna Coric. In the last round, Italian Qualifier Marco Cecchinato defeated 6:3, 6:2 Damir Gumhur (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Wild Card Participant Gilles Simon won the French duel with( 16) Adrian Mannarino with 6:3, 4:6, 6:2. Jan-Lenard Struff (Germany) managed 6:3, 6:2 with Japanese Yucci Sugita, and Fenocio Lopez (Spain) defeated Benoit Pere, 5:7, 7-6 (5).
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