Fabio Fognini surrenders in the fifth set against the Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut. The 37-year-old Ligurian was defeated in the match suspended yesterday due to rain and resumed this afternoon: 7-6 3-6 5-7 6-4 6-4 was the final score for Agut who made the most of the stop. Yesterday, in fact, he had appeared to be in great difficulty and had fallen twice due to a sprained ankle.
The Italian dream of taking three tennis players to the Wimbledon round of 16 for the first time has faded. After Sinner, who has already qualified, Lorenzo Musetti (clear favorite with the qualifier Francisco Comesana) will also take to the court today. The Ligurian, however, can be satisfied with his path in the most prestigious tournament in the world where he beat the world number 8, the Norwegian Casper Ruud.
The South Tyrolean number one in the world will be challenging Ben Shelton,who reached the round of 16 of the men’s singles. In the continuation of the match interrupted yesterday by rain, the American, number 14 in the world and seeded, beat the Canadian Denis Shapovalov with a score of 6-7 (4) 6-2 6-4 4-6 6-2. Also Alexander Zverev he got the pass to the eighth finals: the German, number 4 in the world and seeded, defeated in the third round one of the local favorites, namely the British Cameron Norrie, 42 in the international ranking, with a score of 6-4 6-4 7-6 (15). The tie break of the third set was almost interminable, won by Zverev on the sixth match point, after having cancelled five set points for Norrie. In the eighth finals the German awaits the winner of the Fritz-Tabilo match.
Other results. Third round: Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (Fra) b. Emil Ruusuvuori (Fin) 4-6 6-2 7-6 (5) 6-4; Ugo Humbert (Fra, 16) b. Brandon Nakashima (USA) 7-6 (9) 6-3 6-7 (5) 7-6 (6).