Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori they arrive at round of 16 of the doubles draw of the tournament ATP Masters 1000 in Madrid: the Azzurri, accredited with the twelfth seed, eliminate the Russian Daniil Medvedev and American Tommy Paul 6-2 7-6 (5) in an hour and three minutes of play and tomorrow they will face the Russian Aslan Karatsev and Chinese Zhang Zhizhen.
In the first set the blue pair squandered a break point at the decisive point in the opening, then found eight consecutive points from 0-1 and went to 2-1 with a break to zero, confirming the breakaway in the fourth game after recovering from 15-40. Medvedev and Paul remain in the wake until 2-3, then Bolelli and Vavassori win twelve consecutive points (with another break to zero in the seventh game) and close at 6-2 after 22 minutes.
In the second game There were many opportunities wasted by the Italian pair, who missed the decisive point in the first and third games and then failed to take advantage of two more break points in the fifth game and three more in the seventh. Bolelli and Vavassori, on the other hand, concede just four total points in six rounds of service, but it goes to a tiebreak: from 0-1 the Azzurri extend to 3-1, but are caught up again at 3-3. The Italian pair again finds a minibreak margin at 5-4, but immediately gives it back, then goes to match point at 6-5 and closes in response at 7-5 after 41′.
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The statistics they underline the dominance of the blue couple, who wins 72 points against 45 of the opponents, doing better both with the first on the pitch, obtaining the point in the85% of cases versus 67%both with the second, winning the exchange in 69% of cases versus 33%exploiting 2 of 10 break points had in 7 games and canceling the 3 conceded in a single game.
