Eduardo Struvay
cruises past Alessandro Giannessi in 1st round –
Ciudad de Guayaquil Challenger 2011
Seventh seeded Italian Alessandro Giannessi lost to unseeded Columbian Eduardo Struvay in the first round of the Ciudad de Guayaquil Challenger 2011.
After sixty minutes, the unseeded Columbian flabbergasted the seventh seeded Italian by thrashing him in straight sets of 6-3, 6-0 at the outdoor clay courts of the Guayaquil Tennis Club in Quito, Ecuador on Tuesday the 22nd
of November 2011.
Struvay commenced the first round and he clogged the opening game without much opposition as he had smashed three successive aces to kick start the scoreboard at 1-0. Following in his footsteps was Giannessi and he too held his
respective service game to be placed beside his opposition on the scoreboard at 1-1.
Subsequently, in the following two games the players bagged a game each on alternate service games to tie the score at two games each at the end of the fourth game. The last time the players balanced the score was at three games
each at the end of the sixth game.
From there onwards Struvay cut the goose chase and took on his A-game by utilizing the break-serve-break method to secure the opening set and to go one up in the match with a 6-3 victory.
Amidst the first set of the match, the players matched a blow for a blow and the unseeded Columbian was a better player as he kept his nerves under control by not committing as many unforced errors as his adversary. Moreover, he
had hit seventy eight percent of his first serves on target and accomplished to win a walloping seventy eight percent of his first service points.
Although, he had an average return, he had a geometric precision and smashed three successive aces in the opening game. In addition, he had a good defence and was able to save a hundred percent of his breakpoint and instead, bagged
two out of five breakpoints to his advantage.
One would’ve thought that the seventh seeded player would make a tremendous return in the next set but it seemed as if he had thrown in the towel and did not even try. Giannessi had further plummeted in the second set and he not
only had a poor return game but also had a pathetic return.
In addition, he was unable to benefit from a single breakpoint as Struvay did not setup a single breakpoint opportunity and instead, he only managed to save one out of the four breakpoints on his serve.
Nevertheless, the unseeded Columbian player bagged the second set with a bagel set victory and will be facing either Argentinean qualifier Guido Pella or Pella’s compatriot Brian Dabul in the second round of the tournament.
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