The four-time champion, David Ferrer, had to summon all the experience he has to deal with the Chinese sensation in tennis Yibing with 7:6 (7), 6:4 in the first round of the ASB Classic.
The 35-year-old Spaniard, ranked 37th in the world rankings and number 7 in the tournament, had tremendous difficulties in both sets. The match lasted for less than 2 hours, and 18-year-old Yibin did not act as the 314th in the world, but attacked at every opportunity.
`I think my experience has proved to be key in this game, at the moments that have determined the outcome, ` said Ferrer, exhausted, `a very, very hard game, as a first game this year, it can never be easy. `
Yibing is the US Open champion for teenagers and number 1 in the world in his age group. But he started very nervously, and at the very beginning he broke into a shot. But he returned the breakthrough in the sixth marathon game that went through six equ alizations and four break points were saved.
The first set ended with a tiebreak in which the experienced Spaniard led with 4:0. But Yibing made a new amazing series and turned his turn to 6:4 in his favor and two chances to win the match adviced by record for football predictions before Ferrer came back again and took the part for 73 minutes.
In the second set, Ferrer broke U`s 4-2 lead, but the young Chinese again gave the best and broke the 5:4 lag behind. In the 10th game of the second part he failed to save the break point and after a double error he gave up.
David Ferrer`s rival in the second round will be last year`s finalist Joao Souza from Portugal, who defeated Donald Young (USA) 6:7 (8:10), 6:4, 6:2. Roberto Bautista Agut (Spain) defeated host Michael Venus with 6:2, 6:1 and Canadian Denis Shapovalov defeated Rogerio da Silva (Brazil) 6 :3, 6:2. Karen Khachanov (Russia) took away Yuichi Sugita (Japan) with 6:1, 3:6, 6:4.
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