Winning comeback by Sara Errani in the first round of the Italian tennis internationals 2024: in Rome the blue wild card surpasses the American Amanda Anisimovaon the scoreboard with the protected ranking, imposing himself for 4-6 6-2 6-1 After one hour and 53 minutes and he gives himself the second round against the Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, number 16 in the seeding.
In the first set Errani immediately finds the break at zero, but the American with the advantages makes the immediate counterbreak. Another break to zero for the Italian in the fifth game and an equally immediate counterbreak from Anisimova. In the seventh game the Italian misses three break points and is punished by the American, who breaks Errani’s serve in the eighth game, but in the ninth, after missing three set points, she suffers the counterbreak. However, the Italian does not hold her serve in the tenth game and Anisimova closes at 6-4 after 48 minutes.
In the second game the Italian breaks at fifteen in the third game and then misses two chances for the heavy 4-1 in the fifth game. The second break, however, arrives inexorably at thirty in the seventh game, and so follows Errani, with the serve available, closes on the first set point at 6-2 after 38 minutes.
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In the decisive fraction Anisimova holds the serve in the opening, then the Errani cyclone hits her, with the Italian winning 7 points in a row and on the third occasion she finds the break in the third game. In the fourth game the American drags the Italian to the advantage, but from that moment Errani scores a deadly partial of 13 points to 1 which takes her, after another break to zero in the fifth game, to a triple match point in response in the seventh game. Anisimova only clears one and the Italian can go and take the win 6-1 after just 27′.
The statistics they reward the blue, who wins 95 points against 67 of the US, converting 8 of 18 break points had available and deleting them 3 of 7 granted. Errani puts more firsts on the pitch, 75% versus 57%and wins more points on both the first, 59% versus 48%which with the second, 55% versus 33%.
