ATP Roundup: Stan Wawrinka Drops Heartbreaker in His Final Clay Event
Wawrinka saved 10 of 17 break points but lost in three sets as Burruchaga broke him three times in the deciding set.
- On Tuesday, three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka was eliminated in the first round of the Estoril Open in Portugal, falling to Argentina's Roman Andres Burruchaga 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.
- The 41-year-old Swiss native, playing his final tour-level match on clay before retiring this season, saved 10-of-17 break points and three match points but succumbed on the 10th point of his final service game.
- Elsewhere at the Estoril Open, fifth-seeded Nuno Borges of Portugal defeated Brazilian qualifier Orlando Luz 6-3, 6-3, while sixth-seeded Botic van de Zandschulp of the Netherlands fell to Portugal's Jamie Faria 6-3, 6-4.
- At the Generali Open in Kitzbuhel, Austria, Argentina's Sebastian Baez edged Serbia's Miomir Kecmanovic 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, breaking the 2020 champion in the deciding set.
- Sixth-Seeded German Jan-Lennard Struff advanced past Kazakhstan's Alexander Svevchenko 3-6, 7-6 , 6-4, while France's Quentin Halys defeated Serbia's Laslo Djere 7-6 , 6-4.
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ATP roundup: Stan Wawrinka drops heartbreaker in his final clay event
In his final tour level match on clay, three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka dropped a grueling 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 decision to Argentina's Roman Andres Burruchaga on Tuesday in the first round of the Estoril Open in Portugal. The 41-year old Swiss...
The Argentine, 60° of the ranking, gave the taste to beat the Swiss, who will retire at the end of the season; in Kitzbühel triumphed Trungelliti and Báez
The Swiss surrenders in three sets in the first round of Estoril in which he has been the last game on beaten land of his career
Burruchaga, son of the goalkeeper of the end of 1986, won the 41-year-old Swiss in three sets. Nuno Borges awaits him in the next round.
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