Frederico Gil annihilates Jeremy Chardy in opening round - BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy 2011
Frederico Gil, Portuguese, played Frenchman Jeremy Chardy in his first round match at BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy 2011 in Bucharest, Romania on Monday, 19thSeptember. The two right-handers battled it out for two hours
and fourteen minutes before Gil sneaked away winning 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.
The ATP event started off with its opening round with the world No.100 competing against the world number 106th Frenchman. Prior to their first round match, the two have met at three of the four grand slams and always
in the first round.
Out of the four, Chardy had dominated in three of those, however, this time the Portuguese wanted a win for sure. Entering the classic clay court, the two took their places with a decent cheer by a handful of spectators.
The 26-year-old Portuguese opened up the first game of the match serving out and winning, 1-0. Following the Portuguese, Chardy went on levelling the scores and switching the serve. Boiling up the match, the 24-year-old Frenchman
broke-n-served early to take a 3-1 lead in the set.
Standing to serve once again, Gil came up with a 2nd win in the set, however, that was the last he won. With a second blistering breakpoint, the French world No.106 took out game 7, 5-2. Serving out game 8 Chardy, perhaps,
became a tad over confident of his seemingly easy win. One more and on to the next round!
Taking their ends for the second round battle, Gil once again started off with the first game serve and rolled down his part of the Scoreboard. Levelling next, Chardy played like he had all covered. The two rallied as they equalled
up next at 2-2, 3-3, and then at 4-4 before the Portuguese hammered the world No.106.
Serving out game 9, Gil stood to play the Frenchman. With scores now at 6-5 bended towards Chardy, he had to win this to finish the game. With a startling comeback, the world No.100 took away the set, 6-4, breaking the Frenchman
with a forehand winner.
Moving on with the decider, the Portuguese had another chance to make the head-to-head stats roll in his favour, and he did. The 26-year-old mesmerized the crowd and stunned the Frenchman with a serve-break-serve technique taking
a comfortable 3 games lead, and switching the serve to play game 4.
The set continued without any breakpoints as the Portuguese maintained his lead with a strong defence and an even stronger offense. Leading to a 6-3 eventual win, Gil reduced the deficit in the head-to-head scores along with a
second round spot in the event.
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