Andreas Haider-Maurer drills through Matteo Trevisan into 2nd round – Tennislife Cup 2011 CH
Third seeded Austrian Andreas Haider-Maurer swat past a local wild card entrant Matteo Trevisan with a bagel at the 2011 Tennislife Cup, an ATP Challenger Tour event held on the clay courts in Napoli, Italy. He earned a 6-4, 6-0 victory over the local tennis star to secure a second round spot on Tuesday.
The Zwettl native Maurer took sixty nine minutes to crush the Italian’s dreams with a bagel on their first encounter. He has now advanced into the second round of this red clay event.
Maurer confidently landed on the Italian courts and bagged entire serves through quick forehands and backhands from his arsenal of skills. He fended off all three breakpoints came across and converted one out of two breakpoint chances to his advantage in the ninth game to clinch the set with a 6-4 win.
The Austrian mustered the set by hammering ten amazing aces and regardless of clobbering a lower first serve share of 59 percent as compared to Italian’s 68 percent, he registered a spectacular 88 percent win on it.
Ranked 81st in the South African Airways ATP World Tour rankings, Maurer raised the bar of his game in the final set. He bombarded massive forehands and groundstrokes to destroy the Italian, ranked 341 places below him, by striking out all six games in a row. The Austrian saved both breakpoints faced and converted three out of seven breakpoint opportunities to his advantage to earn the bagel.
24-year-old Austrian will square off against Croat Antonio Veic who warded off early resistance to register a straight set victory over Slovenian Aljaz Bedene on another court.
In an one hour and forty-four minutes match, Veic failed to save the only breakpoint faces but converted three out of four breakpoint chances to his advantage to seal the deal with a 7-6(4), 6-3 victory.
23-year-old Croat exchanged a break in the sixth and seventh game in the first set to drag it to a tie-breaker. He prevailed in it to clinch the opener with a 7-6(4) score line.
Veic kept momentum rolling into the final set and plucked in entire serves through his exquisite forehands. He managed to break the Slovene’s serve in the third and the sixth game to pocket the set with a 6-3 win.
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