Alessio Di Mauro, Andreas Beck proceed to the second round – BNP Paribas Polish Open 2011 CH
Alessio Di Mauro beats Michal Konecny 7-6(3), 6-2
World number 157 Alessio Di Mauro of Italy defeated world number 524 Michal Konecny of Czech Republic in straight sets 7-6(3), 6-2 in the first round at the BNP Paribas Polish Open in Sopot, Poland on Tuesday. The match lasted
for an hour and 40 minutes.
Di Mauro and Konecny broke each other once in the opening set to level the score at 6-6, taking the set to a tie-break. The Italian thrashed his opponent in the tie-break to win it 7-3. The six feet and one inch tall delivered
60 percent of the first serves and three aces in the first set.
The Italian carried the winning momentum into the second set, dropping just two games and clinching the set 6-2. Di Mauro kept his first serve percentage at 42 percent and hit a single ace in the second set. The left-handed sealed
75 percent of the first service points. The 33-year-old capitalised on three of the seven break point opportunities he created and saved one of the two break points on his own serve in the second set.
Di Mauro is slated to take on Serbian Nikola Ciric, ranked 177th in the world, in the second round. Ciric upset top seed Lukas Rosol of Czech Republic 7-6(5), 5-7, 7-6(1) in the first round.
Andreas Beck defeats Andriej Kapas 6-2, 6-3
German Andreas Beck, ranked 140th in the world, cruised past world number 1443 Andriej Kapas of Poland in straight sets 6-2, 6-3 to advance to the second round. Beck took an hour and eleven minutes to undo his opponent
in a one-sided contest.
The 25-year-old took an early lead in the first set as he broke the Polish in the first game and held his next service game to take a 2-0 lead. The German broke Kapas again in the seventh game and served out the set in the next
game, sealing it 6-2. The left-handed converted two of the seven break points he received on Kapas’ serve in the first set.
Beck did not lose his grip on the match as he broke Kapas in the fifth game of the second set and consolidated on it to go ahead 4-2. The German broke his opponent again in the ninth game, winning the set 6-3. The six feet and
three inches tall hit 84 percent of the first deliveries and sealed 88 percent of the points on them in the second set.
The German is drawn to play either Piotr Gadomski of Poland of Jesse Huta Galung of the Netherlands in the second round.
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