A particularly Italian day, today at the ATP 250 in Stuttgarton German grass which is instead doing well for Matteo Berrettini and Lorenzo Musetti, protagonists of their respective quarter-finals this afternoon.
First, however, the other two matches of the day need to be recorded, with a brief appearance of rain as a disturbing element. In reality, at the end of the day, there is only one meeting in the morning.
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This is because the only one left of the hosts, Jan-Lennard Struffdue to an unspecified problem, he decided to forfeit his quarter-final match, thus leaving the way free for one of the last two Americans remaining in the match, Brandon Nakashima.
The opening quarter-final of the program, the one between Frances Tiafoe and Jack Draper, thus becomes the only one of the day. And it alternates between various events: the American and the British first have to endure a suspension and then a few drops that fall before the decisive tie-break (but they continue to play). Tiafoe, moreover, saves a match point at 4-5, but in the aforementioned tie-break he can do nothing and has to give in 5-7 6-4 7-6 (1).