Atlanta: Heading to the quarter-finals for Mannarino

Mathieu WARNIER, Media365, published on Thursday July 28, 2022 at 9:54 p.m.

Fallen in two sets of the American Alex Reed Andres Martin, Adrian Mannarino qualified for the quarter-finals of the ATP tournament in Atlanta, for which he was drafted.

Adrian Mannarino has no complexes. Eliminated in the last qualifying round in Atlanta and then drafted following Nick Kyrgios withdrew, the Frenchman was invited to the quarter-finals. For this, the 78th in the world got the better of Andres Martin, recipient of an invitation and who is ranked 736th in the ATP ranking. The American, who is taking part in his very first tournament on the main circuit, was immediately at ease. From his first break point, he took the service of Adrian Mannarino to lead three games to nothing and even had two chances to double the bet in stride. However, Adrian Mannarino was able to find solutions to reverse the trend and equalize at four games everywhere.

Mannarino finally found the solution

He then no longer left the slightest roughness in the service that his opponent might have exploited. The Habs took their chance to break in turn and then conclude the first set with a shutout. The second set started with neither player giving the other a chance to take the lead. A situation that continued for six games. It was then that Adrian Mannarino used his experience to turn the match definitively in his favor. Chaining four games won consecutively with two breaks as a bonus, the native of Soisy-sous-Montmorency sealed the fate of the meeting on his first match point (7-5, 6-3 in 1h25 ‘). Adrian Mannarino will thus play his fifth quarter-final in 2022 following Montpellier, Dallas, Delray Beach and s-‘Hertogenbosch. He will have to face Alex de Minaur, seeded number 3, or James Duckworth.