Mikhail Elgin wipes out Adrian Ungur in round two battle – IPP Open 2011 CH
Wednesday, 23rd of November continued with the second round fixtures of IPP Open 2011 Challenger. Mikhail Elgin, Russian 30-year-old and an underdog in on tour, met Romanian world No.115, Adrian Ungur, in an Indoor hard court match at Tali, Helsinki, Finland. Elgin survived and won an hour and 39 minutes battle finishing off 2-6, 6-3 and 6-3.
Playing their third head-to-head fixture, Elgin turned down his side of the scores winning the second round match. Before this, Ungur had a 2-nil lead against the veteran Russian. Anyways, the two walked down the blue court and followed with the match warm-up and the service toss.
Starting off with the first serve, Ungur ignited the match serving out the first game, 1-0; however, Elgin followed and replied the 26-year-old with a spectacular triple game point win, 1-1. Ungur continued and almost lost his second service game, however, managed to save the game turning down the scoreboard, 2-1.
The two continued winning games until game six, when Ungur broke his lower ranked rival to lead the set, 4-2. Serving next, Romanian made his lead much more strong bagging game seven, 5-2, and followed with a shocker breakpoint win concluding the set, 6-2, and onto the next.
Struggling in the first set, Elgin made his comeback in set two. Ungur, firing up the set opener carried away with the initial game however, Russian veteran kept on the 26-year-olds tail all the time. Rallying out games and levelling up on 1-1, 2-2 and then on 3-3, Elgin broke the higher ranked Romanian in game seven and went in lead for the first time in the match, 4-3.
With two more games left to even up the match scores, Elgin served out game eight, 5-3, and ended the set exactly the same way he lost in the first, breakpoint winner, to win the set, 6-3, and evened up the match scores, 1-1.
With just the decider left for the match to reach its conclusion, Elgin started off serving first, however, was unimpressive in his start as he lost his opening serve, 0-1. Nevertheless, Veteran Russian broke back immediately levelling up the scores and served out again to extend his lead to 2-1.
Struggling to pull back up, Ungur lost his third consecutive game of the set, 3-1. Taking advantage of the breakpoint, Russian served out game five, 4-1, and stood to return next. Ungur did win games after that, however, was unable to break back and level up the scores at any point.
Serving out two out of the last four games, Elgin paved his way to a spectacular comeback victory and moved onto the next stage of the ATP Challenger Tour event. Through to the quarter-finals, Elgin will play the winner of the match between Dustin Brown of Germany and Lukas Lacko, Slovakia, for the semis seat of the event.
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