2024-07-23 14:32:15
Sebastian Ofner’s Olympic rehearsal failed at home in Kitzbühel. The Styrian, seeded fifth, lost to 21-year-old Lucas Neumeier from Salzburg on Tuesday (4:6.6:4.6:7(3)) after 2 hours and 14 minutes. Lukas Neumayer). Offner, who had been hit hard recently, doesn’t seem to be fully back in shape.
For Neumeier, a protégé of Günter Bresnik and Gerald Kamitz, it was his first victory on the ATP Tour in his second appearance on the ATP Tour (after Kitz in 2021). The Salzburg player will face wild-card holder Nicholas Moreno de Alboran of the United States in the last 16 on Wednesday.
In the first set, in front of a packed house and 5,800 fans, the game was evenly matched until the seventh game, when Ofner, who had been serving so confidently, had to give up. Ofner missed two opportunities to immediately break Neumeier’s serve at 15 minutes and 40 seconds, falling behind 3:5. After 35 minutes, Neumeier confidently served to chase the score to 6:4.
Offner had to give up serve again in the first set of the second set and fell behind 0-2, but with a break, the score was tied to 2-2. Neumeier lost serve again and Offner rewritten the score to 4-2. . But Ofner made more mistakes on the baseline, and he immediately gave up his serve. Neumeier, ranked 289th in the ATP rankings, was far behind Ofner (56th) and evened the score at 4:4. Ofner relied on a break to chase the score to 6:4 and save the third set.
For that matter, the game, equally flawed on both sides, continues to swing for the time being. After a break and a break, the score reached 3:3, and then Ofner broke again immediately after losing the serve. The Austrian No. 1 player saved two break points at 5 minutes and 5 seconds, and the game entered a tie-break 2 minutes and 7 seconds later. It was a bit unfortunate for Offner, as Neumeier took advantage of the first match point at 6:3 to achieve his biggest success yet.
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