Fabio Fognini eliminated Andy Murray in the second round of the Shanghai Masters, keeping hopes alive for a place among the top eight tennis players to take part in the closing tournament of the ATP World Tour Finals season. mid next month in London.

The 32-year-old Italian won a very outrageous match, where both tennis players appeared nervous and overly angry. It was the longest of 14 challenges on Tuesday, a duel that lasted for 3h 11 ?, but which gives the world number 12 significant points to further improve its ranking in the ATP overall classification.

Fognini has no point defending in the Chinese Masters, as last season’s tennis player was missing due to a knee injury, however the Montecarlo Masters winner managed to win a very tough match thanks to two sets secured in tie. break “. Murray, currently ranked No. 289 in the world, started the game at the disadvantage of a “break” game, but the British tennis player reacted immediately with a counter-attack.

The same story was repeated with the two tennis players who this time changed roles, because after the 4-2 lead of the 32-year-old Scottish Fognini equalized the figures and everything was resolved in a “tie break”. After losing the opening set 7-4, in a full 69 ? game, Murray responded brilliantly, breaking his opponent twice to close the accounts of the second set with a deep 6-2 score.

As if the rivalry on the playing field in the final set was not enough, the two peers were seen exchanging words not at all pleasant to each other; he served himself.To the surprise of all, Murray, who had not been in service for 10 consecutive games, surrendered his lead when he led 5-4 and 6-5, and the two tennis players went to another “tie break”. Fognini kept calm and broke off at the start to win the decisive game with a 7-2 score, thereby equaling the match between 4-4.

The final set went full 72 ? and Fognini eventually won 2-1, while Murray, on the other hand, closed the challenge with 125 points in favor, and ironically just over one point more than his rival.

Two-time Shanghai champion Roger Federer suffered a bit in the second set to eliminate Spanish tennis player Albert Ramos Vinolas, who before the meeting was a 1-1 draw in terms of balance with the 38-year-old from Basel. The world number 3 gave no chance to break ATP Class 46, but the helmet veteran overcame a 4-1 disadvantage in the second set tie break to win the entire match 6-2, 7 -6, in just under a half hour of play.

The final at the US Open was the seventh of this season for Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev, however since Slemi at Flushing Meadows in late September the 23-year-old Moscow also triumphed in St. Petersburg, consolidating fourth place in the world rankings.

The winner of the Cincinnati Masters snatched the services of four-time number 64 in the circuit, British Cameron Norrie, to finish the game 6-3, 6-1 in just 55 yards. Matteo Berrettini, who ranks 13th in the ATP rankings, was only 59 points behind his compatriot Fabio Fognini.

The 23-year-old Roman, who was defeated in the US Open only in the semifinals by champion Rafael Nadal, defeated Jan-Lennard Struff in a more than one-hour game with a 6-2, 6-1 deep draw, but the biggest surprise. the day’s quarterfinalist of this year’s edition of Slemit New York, other Moscow tennis player Andrey Rublev eliminated world number 15 and finalist of the previous edition of the Shanghai Masters, Croatian Borna Coric with the score 6-4, 7-6.