Garcia-Lopez, Blaz Kavcic stunned at the first hurdle – Bet-at-home Cup 2012
Jurgen Zopp beats Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-1, 6-3
World number 80, Estonia’s Jurgen Zopp, played remarkably well to thrash the sixth seeded Spanish player, Guillermo-Garcia Lopez, in straight sets 6-1, 6-3 in the opening round of the Bet-at-home Open in Kitzbuhel on Monday.
The Estonian allowed Garcia-Lopez to win just four games in the entire match, beating him 6-1, 6-3 in just an hour and 19 minutes to proceed to the last 16.
Zopp was under pressure at the start of the contest but he survived three deuces to win a 12-point opening game and take a 1-0 lead. The Estonian contender made the most of this chance, winning four more games in a row and racing
to a 5-0 lead. Garcia-Lopez avoided further humiliation by holding his serve in the sixth to open his account but he could not do anything else, going down 1-6.
In the second set, Zopp and Garcia-Lopez exchanged a strike in the opening four games to equalise the score at 2-2. The Estonian participant made double breakthrough later on, winning three successively to move ahead 5-2. Garcia-Lopez
made some effort to pull one back in the eighth game but he lost his subsequent serve to lose 3-6.
Zopp is slated to meet USA’s Wayne Odesnik in the second round. Odesnik fought back from a deficit of one set to oust Joao Souza of Brazil in the first match.
Antonio Veic defeats Blaz Kavcic 6-1, 6-2
Croatia’s 137th ranked contestant, Antonio Veic, bulldozed Blaz Kavcic of Slovakia in straight sets 6-1, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the event.
Veic played near flawlessly in the first set, as he dropped only one game till the end, snatching two break of serve and making the most of them to win 6-1.
The Croatian player did not allow Kavcic to settle down in the second set, hitting him a blow in the very first game and holding his following serve to build a 2-0 lead. Veic clinched his second breakthrough in the fifth and capitalised
on both of them to seal it 6-2.
Kavcic’s pathetic second serves let him down, as he committed a total of six horrible double faults in the match.
This was Veic and Kavcic’s third encounter on the ATP World Tour in this season, with both players sharing one victory before this match.
Veic will play the world number 97, Lukas Rosol of Czech Republic, in the round of 16. The Czech participant ousted Russia’s Teymuraz Gabashvili in straight sets 7-6(4), 6-1 to book his place in the second round.
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