In Doha Matteo Berrettini after Novak Djokovic also beats Tallon Griekspoor

After beating Novak Djokovic in the first round of the Doha ATP 500, Matteo Berrettini overcame what Rino Tommasi called the “test of nine”, managing to beat a weaker but psychologically more difficult opponent. In fact, the Roman, world number 35, folded Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor, number 51, with a score of 7-6 6-7 6-4, now he will face Britain’s Jack Draper in the quarterfinals.

Griekspoor saves a break point in the first game, but then throughout the rest of the set only on 5-5, still serving for the Dutchman, there’è another game that comes down to advantages. It goes to the tie-break, won by Berrettini 7-4 thanks to a 5-1 final partial and the’s only minibreak won at 4-3 in his favor.

No break point in the second set, again with only two games going to advantages. Another tie-break: three consecutive minibreaks from 1-1 and the last two are in Groekspoor’s favor, Berrettini regains the lead at 6-5, cancels a set point on his own serve, then loses the next point on his serve and in the next service round wins the tie-break 8-6 and extends the match.

The third set begins with the two players winning 32 of the 34 points in which they have serve until 4-4. The only two points are lost by Berrettini, who forò precisely on 4-4, breaks serve from’his opponent making the only break of the entire match and closes shortly after on the first match point after almost two and a half hours of play.

Milan, Theo Hernandez makes mea culpa

This is what AC Milan lateral Theo Hernandez wrote on Instagram after his elimination from the Champions League and the red he received during the match against Feyenoord.

“Football è unpredictable: it offers us great joys, but also painful moments. Today I feel immense frustration. I apologize to my teammates for leaving them in 10 and I apologize to the fans who always support us”.

“But this club è a family and together we will recover. Let’s all get back up together. Me first”, promises the Frenchman strongly criticized by Rossoneri fans and whom market rumors now give as leaving.

Genoa, a striker stops for at least two weeks

Stop for at least two weeks, after which he will be reevaluated, for Genoa’s Portuguese striker Vitinha. The player had stopped in the second half of the challenge with Venezia last Monday complaining of a flexor problem that the examinations to which he è underwent today confirmed.

It is a muscle sprain that will be reevaluated in two weeks. The player will therefore definitely miss the matches with Inter and Empoli and is unlikely to be available for the away match in Cagliari.

The return appears possible, also considering the previous clinical picture of the player who has already stopped two in the season for muscular problems, missing five matches between October and November and two last month after complaining of a similar problem in the away match in Lecce in the first match of 2005, just in view of the return match with the Salentini scheduled on March 16 at the Ferraris even if the subsequent stop could incline the club not to force the timing.

Meanwhile, only the convalescent players worked today at the Signorini, in addition to Vitinha the unavailable players are Ahanor, Thorsby and Badelj, while the group will resume training tomorrow in view of Saturday night’s match against Inter Milan.