Francesco Maestrelli picks up two match points and advances to quarterfinals in Pune Challenger

Francesco Maestrelli ITA, 12/21/2002

Franz Maestrelli reaches the Quarterfinals of the Pune Metropolitan Region Challenger, an ATP Challenger with a $130,000 prize pool, to be played on the hard courts of the Indian metropolis. The young tennis player from Pisa, No. 175 ATP and fifth seed, had an exciting win over the Australian in the second round Dane Sweeny#262 ATP.
The match was a fight that lasted over three and a half hours and Maestrelli had to come back by losing the first set 67(2). However, the young Italian tennis player didn’t give up and fought with all his might to win the other two sets with 63 and 75 points.

The 20-year-old from Pisa had previously faced Sweeny in the first round of the Chennai Challenger, also in India, a few weeks ago but suffered defeat. This time, Maestrelli showed he has great willpower and knows how to fight to the end by negating two match points on his opponent’s serve in the ninth game of the deciding set (he was down 2-5 in the decider). .
Maestrelli’s next opponent will be the Australian who won the match Max PurcellNo. 116 in the ranking and third favorite of the seed and the Bulgarians Dimitar Kuzmanov#204 ATP.

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