Fognini saved 5th stings Thompson fans. Sinner and Berrettini eliminated - Fabio gets 2 sets from the Australian and wins only at the tiebreak. Jannik surrenders to Hungarian Fucsovics in 3 sets. Matteo loses the first 2 partials with Sandgren, goes back up, but then bowed to the decisive set

He was expected, too long-awaited and eventually crashed. Eighteen year old South Tyrolean Jannik Sinner ends his race against Marton Fucsovics in his first Australian Open. After his debut victory over Max Purcell, a modest Australian player, Sinner was unable to express his full potential by giving up 6-4 6-4 6-3 to the solid and tenacious Hungarian tennis player. Berrettini is also out, beaten in 5 sets (7-6 6-4 4-6 2-6 7-5) by the American Sandgren. Then Fabio Fognini saved Italy's honor by overcoming Thompson in 5 sets.

In closing then it fell to Fognini to save the blue day. Fabio wins the first set at the tiebreak with the Australian Thompson, then easily conquering the second 6-1, before yielding 6-3 in the 3rd and 6-4 in the 4th, therefore forced to play all in the fifth. In which the Aussie cancels two match points on 5-4 for the Sanremo, managing to keep the service after a 10th game that lasted 12 '.

Fognini saved 5th stings Thompson fans

Sewer laboriously responds to the advantages by moving on 6-5 against the number 66 of the ATP ranking, and then goes on 0-30 on the service of the rival. Thompson's backhand on the net gives two more match points, this time in a row, in blue. The first goes on the Australian's forehand, the second on Fabio's error from the bottom. This goes to tiebreak. Fognini goes to the field change above 4-2 despite a heavy double foul, while touching the 4 hours of play, and then extending to 7-3. On 9-4 the consecutive match points this time are 5. Impossible to waste them. And Fabio closes immediately with a big backhand passerby and then makes the gesture of the ears towards the home crowd as if to say "I don't hear you" and once again throw the racket on the ground (but this time it's an outburst of joy ). “A good fight, I think it was even more beautiful to win like this - Fabio then said - I played in a horrible way after being above 2-0, he started to serve very well. I think I had 75 match points. I repeat: sweeter than winning three easy sets ... ".

To decree the symbolic surrender of Sinner in a match never in balance, the final double foul that brought the Bolzano player to his knees. But in substance, the many errors of the blue weighed (47 the free ones) and the little continuity in the offensive game. Something good Sinner tried to do it, especially at the beginning of the third set, when he no longer had anything to lose. With the backhand down the line and with some good surprise attacks, Sinner has glimpsed the potential that has remained unexpressed in the presence of Fucsovics, much more constant and used to playing for a long period at speed and decidedly sustained rhythms. Sinner also disappointed a lot in the batting rounds (7 breaks suffered), not even scoring an ace, committing 4 double fouls, serving just 54% of the first balls with which he made only 65% ​​of the points. Too little to worry Fucsovics who instead traveled like a train, at sustained and constant speed, from start to finish.

To keep Italy afloat tried, without luck, Matteo Berrettini who bowed in five sets to Tennys Sandgren. The blue recovered with character and pride after being under two sets and having spent most of the first two hours at the mercy of the ruthless opponent, able to play two perfect sets with very few free mistakes and many winners: Sandgren had the ball of the ko when - in the seventh game of the third set, after winning the first two by 7-6 6-4 - he had on the racket the break ball that would have thrown him towards an easy victory. But here Berrettini has canceled the chance and from that moment the game is turned. Another delicate turning point in the eighth game of the fifth set when Berrettini had three consecutive chances to go serve for the match, but Sandgren clung to the service by canceling them and getting on the 4 even. It went on without break until 5-5, when Berrettini gave up the service. Sandgren held his and closed 7-5. The American's next opponent will be compatriot Sam Querrey who folded the Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis in four sets. Andreas Seppi will return to the track tomorrow against Stanislas Wawrinka and Camila Giorgi, the only survivor in the women's competition, against the Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova.