Andreas Seppi expected to give the revenge to Liam Broady, who was defeated on Sunday in the final of the Challenger Biella 3. Instead, the 27-year-old Englishman gave up on the fourth appointment with the City of Biella International Championships due to an injury to his right foot, leaving free field at the repechage of Jack Sock. The American, on his debut this season, appeared a little overweight, but with his arm he continues to be able to shoot services well over 200 km / h. The former number 8 (while the South Tyrolean has reached 18th place in the ranking), now dropped to 256th, managed to snatch the first set from Seppi (6-4), only to surrender with a double 6 3 to the greater precision of blue. The one left to Sock is only the third set lost by the thirty-seven year old from Caldaro. The German Gojowczyk and Matteo Viola in the second tournament were able to snatch one from him last week. On that occasion Seppi was defeated in the semifinals by Lorenzo Musetti, who is making sparks in the ATP 500 underway in Acapulco. Starting from qualifying yesterday, he achieved the most prestigious victory of his still unripe career by beating world number 9 Diego Schwartzman 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.
Lucas Pouille (tds 1 and 81 Atp) made his debut with a nice victory against fellow countryman Quentin Halys, beaten 6-2, 7-6 (6) and today at 11 am he will challenge Iliya Marchenko, one of the fittest in town, having won the Biella 1 and then reached the semifinals in Biella 3. The only precedent dates back to 2014 in India, when the transalpine won. The day will continue with the matches between Kolar (1-0 lead) and Barrere; Seppi will challenge Bachinger (1-1 with successes in 2013 in Rotterdam for the German and in 2014 at home in Ortisei for the blue) and Yannick Maden against Sebastian Ofner. Yesterday the successes of Bourgue were recorded (6-3, 6-2 in Tomic); Bonzi (7-6, 7-6 in Kamke) and Stakhovsky (7-5, 5-6, 7-6 in Huesler).