Ultimate Tennis Showdown 2: Gasquet against Lopez for semi-final
Richard Gasquet and Feliciano Lopez play in Group A for the second edition of the Ultimate Tennis Showdown on Saturday for a semi-final. In group B all four players were able to win one match each.
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last edit: Jul 27, 2020, 01:57 pm
Richard Gasquet still copes well with the conditions at Patrick Mouratoglou's academy: At the first edition of the Ultimate Tennis Showdown, the Frenchman had lost in the semi-finals against the eventual winner Matteo Berrettini , in the second, shorter episode, Gasquet is on The weekend started again with two victories: first with a 4: 0 against Grigor Dimitrov, then with 3: 1 against Alexei Popyrin.
Feliciano Lopez, in turn, defeated the same opponents in reverse order. The Spanish veteran beat Popyrn 3-1 on Saturday, beating Dimitrov 3-2 in Sudden Death on Sunday. The starting position in Group A is clear: the winner between Richard Gasquet and Feliciano Lopez moves into the semi-finals, which, like the final, will be played next Sunday.
On the contrary, everything is still open in Group B: All four players have one win each, including Dustin Brown, who won against Corentin Moutet but lost to Benoit Paire. Leader of the table is Fernando Verdasco after the first two matchdays due to the better quarter ratio (5: 4) ahead of Paire (4: 4).
So the winners of both groups move into the semi-finals. Alexander Zverev and Félix Auger-Aliassime are waiting there on Sunday, who were given a wildcard by the organizer.