The first racket of the Ukraine’s Illya Marchenko to reach the second round of the tournament of series ATP-250 with a prize Fund of €520,070.
The draw in the first round of the Moselle Open” brought Marchenko with an experienced Italian Andreas Seppi, who is in a protracted three-set winner of the match was Ukrainian in the first round of the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.
In the first set tennis players have exchanged successful games at the reception and in the tiebreak Marchenko won only one draw and were in a position to catch up.
The outcome of the second party decided to break the Ukrainian in the fourth game. Marchenko confidently held his serve in only one game allowing Seppi to take
more than two goals.
The deciding set lasted over an hour. With the score 4:4 Marchenko missed two break points, then by two magnificent first innings played a double match-point. In the tie-break the Ukrainian has not repeated his mistake – Marchenko played aggressively and naturally won.
In the second round of the tournament on hard courts in Metz Ilya Marchenko will play against the winner of the French Derby between eighth seeded Nicolas Mahut and Centeno Alice.
Ilya Marchenko (Ukraine) – Andreas Seppi (Italy) – 6:7, 6:3, 7:6
