Alessandro Giannessi brushes away Enrico Burzi in opening round – Tennislife Cup 2011 CH
In an all Italian duel, Alessandro Giannessi cruise past his wild card compatriot, Enrico Burzi in straight sets at the 2011 Tennislife Cup, an outdoor red clay court tournament held in Napoli, Italy. Giannessi bagged in a 6-2,
6-2 victory over his 30-year-old countryman to secure a second round spot on Monday.
World number 157, Giannessi required seventy minutes to trash his compatriot, ranked 270 places below him in the South African Airways ATP World Tour rankings, on their first face-to-face. He has now advanced into the second round
of this ATP Challenger Tour event.
21-year-old Giannessi made a terrible start on the red clay as he lost his serve in the opening game. However, he roared back with a fit reply as he unleashed flurry of groundstrokes to reel off next four games in a row before
Burzi could hold on again. The delighted Italian then wiped out proceeding two games to win the opener with a 6-2 score line.
He saved one out of two breakpoints faced but converted three out of four breakpoint chances to her advantage to win comfortably.
The Italian youngster carried his winning ways in the final set and after the scores were tied at 2-2, he showed his true colours and reeled off last four games in a row to clinch the set with a similar 6-2 win again.
Giannessi smoothly picked entire serves without facing any hurdle and capitalised on half of the four breakpoint chances to her advantage.
Overall, the blissful Italian formulated a lower first serve share of 62 percent as compared to Burzi’s 68 percent but he registered an impressive 65 percent win on it.
Next up for the Italian is the winner of the match between eighth seeded French Benoit Paire and Italian wild card enterer Marco Crugnola.
Adrian Ungur will be joining Giannessi in the second round. The Romanian needed one hour and forty minutes to trash the Italian Andrea Arnaboldi in straight sets.
Ungur took the first blood in the fourth game of the opening set but lost his serve in the sixth game to level the scores at 3-3. However, he broke again in the eleventh game and then held his serve to pocket the opener with a
7-5 score line.
He kept momentum rolling into the final set and held entire serves without facing a breakpoint. 26-year-old Ungur converted one out of four breakpoint chances to his advantage in the fifth game to clinch the set with a 6-4 score
line.
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