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January 21, 2020 Four to six. This is the verdict of the blue expedition on Tuesday of the Australian Open 2020 starring the first round. Camila Giorgi, the only one among women, moved on to the next phase, while Jannik Sinner, Fabio Fognini and Andreas Seppi made it among men. The best note comes from the Next Gen champion who with the score of 7-6, 6-2, 6-4, in 2 hours and 19 minutes of play, eliminated the Australian Max Purcell obtaining the first success in a tournament of the Grand Slam. At his age only Nadal and Djokovic did better, while the South Tyrolean matched Federer. In the second round, Sinner (number 82 of the ATP ranking) will have to deal with the Hungarian Marton Fucsovic (number 67) who at the debut had surprisingly eliminated the Canadian Denis Shapovalov.Race suffered by Fognini : seeded number 12, the Ligurian tennis player overcomes the American Reilly Opelka, also thanks to the interruption for the rain yesterday, recovering the two disadvantage sets and winning by 3-6, 6-7 , 6-4, 6-3, 7-6. It is the eighth time in his career that Fognini succeeds in such an undertaking. The words of relief towards the referee, guilty of punishing him with a penalty point following the launch of Fognini's racket, have not gone unnoticed: "Do you understand why I don't want to see you anymore? Why do you feel sorry! you give me security, I don't like you and you're not up to it "he shouted to the referee during the 5th set. Now Fognini will face Thompson.
Definitely more peaceful Andreas Seppi , seeded number 85, who overcomes the first round by beating the Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 and who will now have to deal with Stan Wawrinka. Nothing to do instead for Marco Cecchinato , beaten by the number 7 in the World Alexander Zverev (6-4, 7-6, 6-3) in one hour and 26. Lorenzo Sonego gives the pass for the next phase of the Australian Open to host Nick Kyrgios in two hours and 13 minutes of play after still providing a good performance: 6-3, 7-6, 7-6 the scores of the sets. Stefano Travaglia also said farewell in the first round, defeated by the Chilean match against Cristian Garin for 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 and Lorenzo Giustino who can do nothing against Milos Raonic: 6-2, 6-1,6-3. the result in favor of the Canadian. Speaking of big names, Monfils, Thiem, Medvedev, Goffin, Bautista Agut and number 1 of the Nadal World pass. Rafa is looking for the second title in Australia after that of 2009 and, in the event of a final success, would equal Roger Federer's 20 Slam, thus becoming the first tennis player in the Open era to win all four Slams at least twice.
As for the women's scoreboard, the only blue joy is given by Camila Giorgi who starts her Australian adventure by overcoming the German Antonia Lottner with a double 6-3; for her now there is the obstacle Kuznetsova. Already finished, however, those of Elisabetta Cocciaretto , who surrenders to the other German, Angelique Kerber, for 6-2, 6.2, and Jasmine Paolini , beaten by the Russian Anna Blinkova 7-5, 6-4. Black moment for Maria Sharapova: the winner of the Australian Open 2008, present in this edition thanks to a wild card, remedied the third consecutive defeat in a Slam. The Siberian was beaten by the Croatian Donna Vekic 6-3, 6-4 and this knockout cost her the exit from the list of the top 300 tennis players in the world. Instead Pliskova, Keys, Bencic, Halep, Svitolina and Muguruza advance.