Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo sweeps away Marcel Felder in 1st round – Ciudad de Guayaquil Challenger 2011
Fourth seeded Espanola Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo wiped out Uruguayan Marcel Felder in the first round of the Ciudad de Guayaquil Challenger 2011.
At the outdoor clay courts of the Guayaquil Tennis Club in Guayaquil, Ecuador, the two players confronted each other on Tuesday the 22nd of November 2011. After one hour and twenty six minutes, fourth seeded Espanola drilled the Uruguayan by scoring in straight sets of 6-4, 6-3.
Hidalgo had decided to go for the opening round after he had won the service toss and both the player were able to bag two games each by holding their respective serves at the end of the fourth game. However, in the fifth game Hidalgo held his serve and then capitalized on a breakpoint chance. In doing so; he not only reeled of two successive games but also was first to take the lead at the end of the sixth game.
In subsequent two games, the players bagged their respective serves and even though Hidalgo was now only a game away, he was unable to secure the opening set immediately in the next game. During the last two games the players broke each other one after the other and eventually the fourth seeded Espanola bagged the opening set with a 6-4 victory.
Hidalgo also commenced the second set and once again both the players managed to bag a game each to tie the score. However, in the third game Hidalgo held his serve and as Felder’s hand went wayward, the fourth seed capitalized on a breakpoint to take the lead for the first time in the second set at the end of the fourth game.
The two then matched an eye for an eye the score progressed to 5-2 at the end of the seventh game as the two rivals once more held their service games. Although Hidalgo was unable to force an error off his adversary, he managed to seal his victory by smashing a marvellous backhand winner in the ninth game.
Overall, Felder had hit 85 percent of his first serves on target but was unable to bag most of his first service points and thus was unable to muster the numbers. On the contrary, Hidalgo had bagged a sixty nine percent win of his total service points along with an average return which enabled him to achieve a forty five percent win of his total return points.
In addition, he had capitalized on a fifty percent of his breakpoints won and with fourteen more points in the total points, he clogged the match. Next up for the fourth seed is Argentinean Martin Alund in the second round of the tournament.
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