We have two different destinies for the top 2 seeds in Sao Paulo.
Haas
Seed no.1 Tommy Haas defeated world no.152 Potito Starace in straight sets. The German didn’t play at his very best to break the Italian for the first only in the 7th game of the 2nd set.
Haas commented “It’s my first match ever here, the conditions are tough, the ball flies pretty hard. My opponent played through qualifying and won his first round-match. He has a lot of kick on his serve so I was trying to get some rhythm. I was able to hold my serve quite comfortably, which was nice. I played a pretty good tie break.”
The German will take on Zeballos in the quarters.
Almagro
Nicolas is having a terrible moment to crash out for the second consecutive time in the first round on clay. This time he lost to world no.61 Federico Delbonis 3-6 6-3 6-2 in 90 minutes.
