“Lorenzo Musetti withdraws because he doesn’t feel well“: with these words the chair umpire announces the decision by Lorenzo Musetti to leave the field doing bring the frost on Central. It could be the stomach acheas far as we know, the cause of stop decided by the blue, which was down one set against French qualifier Terence Atmanewho led by 7-5 1-0 after an hour and twelve minutes of play. For the transalpine in the third round one of the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka and Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, number 8 of seeding.
In the first set the two players on the court take turns serving quite easily, then the first possible turning point arrives during the ninth game, when the transalpine finds himself 15-40 down. Atmane, however, scores four games and saves himself. Everything seems set for the tiebreak, but Musetti in the twelfth game was drawn to the advantage and then gave up serve: Atmane ends like this at 7-5 after 61′. After the break, the second partial he then sees the Frenchman hold his serve to zero at the start at the change of ends Musetti communicates to the chair umpire his intention to retire and leaves the field.
The statisticsuntil the moment of the stoppage, they photographed a rather balanced match with the Frenchman scoring 3 more winners than the blue player, 12 against 9 and granting an equal number of free throws, 9. Two aces and as many double faults for the Frenchman, a only ace for Musetti, who he doesn’t take advantage of the two consecutive break points he had available and fails to cancel the only opportunity granted.
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