Tennis: Cincinnati; new knockout for Berrettini, out in the 1st round

(ANSA) – ROME, AUGUST 16 – There has been a lot of progress compared to the knockout against Carreno-Busta in Montreal, but an overall good performance was not enough for Matteo Berrettini, who immediately left the scene also in the “Western & Southern Open “, seventh ATP Masters 1000 on the calendar, featuring a prize pool of 6,280,880 which is being played on the hard courts of Mason, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. In the Italian night, the 26-year-old Roman, number 15 in the ranking and 12 in the seeding – inserted in the upper part of the draw, that of Medvedev, who scored in the 2019 edition – lost 76 (3) 46 76 (5), after a battle of almost three hours, to the American Frances Tiafoe, # 25 ATP. A lively and spectacular game, played well by both, but with the American a bit more determined and courageous to the limits of unconsciousness, pushed by the cheering of the home crowd. (HANDLE).

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