Andrea Agazzi crushes Alberto Iarossi to advance in qualies – Guzzini Challenger 2011
Qualifying eight seed, Italian Andrea Agazzi slaughtered his countryman, Alberto Iarossi with double breadsticks in the qualifiers of the Guzzini Challenger 2011 – Trofeo Francesco Guzzini on Saturday. He registered a 6-1, 6-1
victory over his 21-year-old compatriot at this ATP Challenger Tour event held on the hard courts in Recanati, Italy.
Ranked 801st in the South African Airways ATP World Tour rankings, Agazzi barely broke sweat to stomp over his compatriot in forty-five minutes on their first meeting. He is now bidding for the €30,000 prize money of
this event.
Agazzi raged into the opening set and made quick in-roads after bagging entire serves with his amazing agility and capitalising on two out of three breakpoint opportunities to his advantage to earn the first breadstick. He produced
a better first serve share of 67 percent as compared to his rival’s 50 percent and registered a fantastic 92 percent win on it.
29-year-old Italian kept his high spirit in the final set. He unleashed flurry of groundstrokes to reel off first four games in a row before his fellow countryman could hold on. Agazzi then wiped out the last two games to pocket
another breadstick in around twenty minutes. He clobbered a slightly lower first serve share this time but earned a brilliant 88 percent win on it. To spice the set further, he cashed in all three breakpoint opportunities to his advantage to help win comfortably.
The Youngster on the other hand never posed a single threat and committed several unforced errors and eight double faults. He also produced a lower first serve share and earned a poor 44 percent win on it. Adding to this misery,
he saved only one out of six breakpoints faced and failed to find even a single breakpoint chance.
Fourth seeded Mexican Manuel Sanchez will be joining the Italian seed in the next round of the qualifying competition. He failed to save the only breakpoint faced but converted three out of six breakpoint chances to his advantage
to seal the match with a 6-4, 7-5 score line in sixty-eight minutes.
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