Trevisan ko, Cocciaretto challenges Bencic, Giorgi is there in the evening
As if Elisabetta Cocciaretto did not spare herself, but despite a match, she did not manage to avoid the elimination in the first round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia (WTA 1000 – prize pool $ 2,527,250) scene on the red clay of the Foro Italico in Rome.
The 21-year-old from Fermo, 159 of the ranking, the youngest of the blue in the race, yielded 64 62, in an hour and 27 minutes of play, to the Swiss Belinda Bencic, # 14 WTA and twelfth favorite in seeding.
There was no precedent between the Marchesan, who returned to the tour after a season almost completely lost due to a knee problem, and the 25-year-old from Flawil. Elisabetta held up well the exchange at the start and also took a break advantage (3-1) before immediately the return of the Swiss tennis player, of another displacement in terms of power (3-3). Cocciaretto, playing in advance, tried to remain attached to her opponent in the score but in the ninth game she again gave up the serve (5-4) and shortly after, after missing the chance of the even five, also the set (6-4) .
Second fraction a little more one-way with Bencic who broke the blue in the third and seventh game: the partial of 12 points to 1 with which Belinda closed the discussion was scary. For a 6-2 a little too severe for the Marche.