NextGen ATP Finals: Dominic Stricker convinces against Jack Draper
Dominic Stricker impressively won his first group match against Jack Draper at the NextGen ATP Masters in Milan.
by Stefan Bergmann
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Nov 08, 2022, 11:44 pm
The first day of the NextGen ATP Finals is over: In the nominal top duel of the night session, the Swiss Dominic Stricker celebrated an impressive opening win against Jack Draper in third place. The Swiss decided the worth seeing game against the Brits with 4: 3 (5), 4: 3 (5), 4: 3 (5) and inspired with an enormously focused performance. In addition to high-class forehand whips, the 20-year-old also interspersed many rhythm changes.
In the first match of the late shift, substitute Matteo Arnaldi showed that he didn't just come by to be there. The world number 134. delivered a really strong performance against fourth-seeded Brandon Nakashima, especially in sets one and four as he fought his way back into the tie-break from a 3-1 deficit, the 21-year-old from Sanremo showed refreshingly attacking tennis. In the end, after 2:10 hours of play, the US boy's routine on the big stage prevailed - Nakashima won 2: 4, 4: 3 (7), 4: 3 (4), 3: 4 (4), 4:2
Today's results also result in tomorrow's game plan, which looks like this: In the afternoon session, the two Italians Francesco Passaro and Arnaldi meet first, before the Czech Jiri Lehecka meets Nakashima before 3 p.m. The first match of the night session is Chun-Hsin Tseng from Chinese Taipei against Draper, followed by a duel between Lorenzo Musetti (Italy) and Stricker.