Tennis. Funny first laps for Furness and Guinard in Lille – tennis

Invited in the large desk of Play In Challenger in Lille (78,120 {dollars} + lodging), the Pontivyen of TC Quimperlé, Evan Furness (N.340 at ATP), had inherited the seed quantity 2, Benjamin Bonzi. If he had dominated on clay in 2020 at Manacor, the Nîmois was not likely a present for Evan Furness since Bonzi, in explicit a semi-finalist on the Challenger de Quimper 1, landed in the North with the very best rating of his profession: N. 124.

But the 22-yr-outdated Morbihannais was in a position to take the match by the proper finish of the racket and win the first spherical (7-5). Bonzi then needed to – and managed to – increase his degree of play to counter Furness and tie in one set in all places (6-4).

The Breton, who remained on a victory in Future in Portugal (exhausting outdoors), lastly gave up his throw-in initially of the third spherical and couldn’t make up for this delay (6-3). Infuriating!

Guinard doubles the stake

Earlier in the day on Tuesday, his teammate at TC Quimperlé, the Malouin Manuel Guinard (N.319), additionally had a “big chunk” on this system with the Italian Andrea Arnaboldi (N.278, ex-N .153). From the outset on a degree taking part in area with the transalpine left-hander, the 25-yr-outdated Bretillian solely gave in to the tie-break of the first set (7-6 [3]). Manuel Guinard had undoubtedly missed his likelihood since Arnaboldi would win the following six video games (6-0) to qualify for the spherical of 16.

The Lille journey continues, nonetheless, for the Malouin who certified in doubles with Dustin Brown, for the quarter-finals. The German with dreadlocks, well-known on the Breton courts, is just not the kind of resentment since Guinard had crushed him in April 2019 on the Challenger in Léon (Mexico).

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