A bad Luca Nardi he immediately leaves the scene in first round of Wimbledon. The weigh (n.75 in the ranking) gave in on the score of 6-1 6-4 6-2 in the Argentine style Tomas Martin Etcheverry (n.31 ATP) in 1 hour and 45 minutes of gameplay. A match interrupted by rain at the end of the second half in which the Nardi’s passivity has hit negatively. The talent of the local tennis player has practically never been seen and for the South American it was easy to prevail. In the next round the Argentine will face the winner of the match between the Brazilian Thiago Monteiro and the Australian Alexei Popyrin.
In the first set Nardi’s difficulties in playing are immediately noticeable. The Italian does not make an impact from the back, essentially contenting himself with putting the ball beyond the court and not trying to create something beyond the normal exchange of shots. In this way, Etcheverry’s better regularity has an easy life and the 5-0 after a few serves is emblematic. Luca finds a way to win a game, but the 6-1 is the representation of what we saw.
In the second set the music doesn’t change. Nardi is impalpable and limits himself to acting as a sparring partner for his opponent. No variation that costs him the break to love in the fifth game. The rain arrives at the end of the set, but it doesn’t wake our standard-bearer from his torpor who loses on 6-4.
In the third set the Argentine immediately goes ahead by a break, taking advantage of Luca’s gifts, who tries to do something different, but it’s not his day. The creative tennis of the Pesaro player on the Church Road lawns is not there and to top it all off there is also a nosebleed that gives that bitter feeling to an insufficient performance by the tricolor tennis player (6-2).
Reading the statisticsone figure is striking above all: 25% of points won with the second serve by the Italian, compared to 60% by the South American. The winners/unfortunate events ratio is largely in the red, at 22/29 compared to 20/19 by Etcheverry.
