Comesana stuns world number two Zverev in Rio Open

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Comesana stuns world number two Zverev in Rio Open

Argentinian Francisco Comesana stunned Australian Open finalist and world number two Alexander Zverev on Friday with a 4-6 6-3 6-4 win in the quarter-finals of the Rio Open, the biggest win of his career so far. Comesana, ranked 86th in the world, turned heads in his Grand Slam debut match last year when

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Alexander Zverev blows huge chance in Jannik Sinner world No 1 chase

Alexander Zverev squandered a big opportunity to close the gap to Jannik Sinner at the top of the ATP Rankings after his shock exit at the Rio Open. The German lost 6-4, 3-6, 4-6 to world No 86 Francisco Comesana in the quarter-finals of the clay-court ATP 500 tournament. The three-time Grand Slam runner-up led 4-1 in the third set, but his 24-year-old Argentine opponent won five straight games from that position to seal a sizeable upset. Follow…

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Alexander Zverev unexpectedly says goodbye to Brazil. World number two was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro. Francisco Comesana, in fact, managed to beat the talented Teutonic player with the final score of 4-6 6-3 6-4, thus snatching a pass to the semifinals of the Brazilian tournament (where he will face the Frenchman Alexandre Muller). For Zverev, a defeat to forget and a rather gray month of February on the S…

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Francisco Comesana Executes Comeback To Defeat Alexander Zverev In Rio De Janeiro

Francisco Comesana came back from 4-1 down in the deciding set to knock out Alexander Zverev in Brazil.

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He had a great chance to triumph, but...

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Argentine tennis player Francisco Comesaña yesterday eliminated German Alexander Zverev, world number two and top seed at the Rio de Janeiro Open, to secure his place in the semi-finals of the only ATP 500 tournament held in South America. Comesaña, number 86 in the ATP rankings, beat the finalist of this year's Australian Open by scores of 4-6, 6-3 and 6-4, in a match that lasted two hours and 31 minutes, and which he had to come back from behi…