Marcelo Melo lost in the first match of a doubles brawl in the early hours of this Saturday, and has already said goodbye to the WTA 1000 Indian Wells, in the United States. with Croatian partner Ivan DodigoBrazil were eliminated after losing 2 sets to 1 by Nick Kyrgios of Australia with partial points of 5/7, 6/1 and 2/10. and Thanasi KokinakisoCurrent Australian Open Champion.
The Australian tournament won by the Hangman this weekend was also the last event Mello celebrated with Dodig as well, when he defeated Hugo Nis and Adrian Mannarino in the first round. They then lost to the Italians Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini. Since then, the 38-year-old Brazilian hasn’t won much, so much so that he has earned his sixth consecutive defeat.
On the court this morning, after a balanced first set, which they lost to their rivals in return quality, Melo and Dodig played an impressive second set, after a groundbreaking start, losing just two points on serve, and 6 Won by 1.
With the tie, the decision went into a tie-break match, in which the Aussies dominated and took advantage of the opponents’ mistakes to win. Classified, Kyrgios and Kokinakis will face Americans John Isner and Jack Sock in the next leg, after partial victories over Croatians Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic with 7/5 (7/2), 3/6 and 10 partials. Proceeded. / 1.
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Meanwhile, in the women’s singles brawl, which saw Brazilian Biya Haddad eliminated during Friday afternoon, the morning was bad for the favourites. Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, 18th in the rankings and top 12, fell to British Harriet Dart, who had partially finished 2/6 and 6/3.
Another eliminated was Olympic champion Belinda Bencic, seeded 22nd in the tournament and number 20 in the world, losing 6/4 and 6/3 to Kaia Kanepi, 63rd in the rankings. Earlier, Karolina Pliskova and Garbine Muguruza, eighth and ninth respectively, had already fallen in the afternoon game.
Young American Coco Gauff, ranked 17th in the world at age 17, defeated Claire Liu 2 sets to 0, went ahead with partials of 6/1 and 7/6, and would face Romanian Simona Halep.
