Internazionali BNL d`Italia Live Stream Free 2020: Victoria Azarenka put on a dominant display on Campo Centrale to stun No.3 seed Sofia Kenin in straight sets and move into the third round at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia.
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All eight round-of-16 singles matches will take place on Friday at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia, with top seed Simona Halep, defending champion Karolina Pliskova, and two-time champion Elina Svitolina leading a slate that also includes Grand Slam champions Victoria Azarenka, Garbiñe Muguruza, and Svetlana Kuznetsova. Lorenzo Musetti proved that his first-round victory over Stan Wawrinka was no fluke on Thursday night as he continued his giant-killing run at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia.
The 18-year-old qualifier showed no fear in dispatching former World No. 4 Kei Nishikori 6-3, 6-4 at the Foro Italico for a clash against Dominik Koepfer, who beat fifth seed Gael Monfils 6-2, 6-4. Musetti is the first Italian teenager to reach the last 16 in Rome since 19-year-old Diego Nargiso in 1989.
“It was an incredible match,” said Musetti, in an on-court interview. “I think I played really smart, as he was playing close to the baseline. It was different to Wawrinka, they are great champions. I am really happy right now. I felt really good on my forehand from the beginning. I could play more offensively on return, than against Stan.”
ITALIANS IN ROME LAST 16An Open Era-tying record four Italians are in the Rome Round of 16, the first time since 1979 when Corrado Barazzutti, Paolo Bertolucci, Gianni Ocleppo and Adriano Panatta accomplished the feat. That year Ocleppo and Panatta reached the quarter-finals.
An Italian teenager has never reached the Rome quarter-finals. The youngest Italian to reach the quarter-finals was 20-year-old Andrea Gaudenzi, now the current ATP Chairman, who lost to Pete Sampras in the last eight in 1994.Nine-time champion Rafael Nadal surprised even himself at how well he played in his first match back in more than six months at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia. The No. 2 seed now shifts his focus to securing a quarter-final berth when he meets Serb Dusan Lajovic in the third round on Friday.
Two days after he swept aside compatriot Pablo Carreno Busta for the loss of just two games, Nadal continues his bid for a record 36th ATP Masters 1000 title when he meets Lajovic for the third time.”It was a perfect start for me. It was solid, good shots on the forehand and backhand. I didn’t expect to play that well,” Nadal said of his first-round win. “I played a very solid match and very serious and doing a lot of things very well. So very happy.”
Nadal brings a 2-0 ATP Head2Head record into the clash, having not conceded a set in the two Grand Slam showdowns. The Serb came into the ATP Masters 1000 event in Rome with a 0-3 record since the ATP Tour resumed.The World No. 25 has struck form at the Foro Italico. He brought down #NextGenATP player Alejandro Davidovich Fokina before he upset No.13 seed Milos Raonic in three sets in the second round.
An Open Era record-equalling four Italians are through to the Round of 16 in Rome – the first time since 1979 – with all in action on Friday. One is guaranteed of reaching the quarter-finals when No. 4 seed Matteo Berrettini faces wild card Stefano Travaglia.
Three could advance for the first time in the Open Era should 2019 Next Gen ATP Finals champion Jannik Sinner and #NextGenATP qualifier Lorenzo Musetti prevail. Not since 1984 have two Italians reached the quarter-finals and it was 2006 when a pair of teenagers last made it that far when Nadal and Gael Monfils advanced.
Following a first-round win over Argentine Federico Coria, top-ranked Italian Berrettini will meet World No. 84 Travaglia in a first tour-level meeting between the pair. Travaglia won their three Futures matches on clay in Italy in 2015 and 2016 and comes off straight-sets wins over Taylor Fritz and Borna Coric this week.
Like Nadal, four-time champion Novak Djokovic is in the hunt for a record 36th Masters 1000 title. On Friday, he meets compatriot Filip Krajinovic for a place in his 14th straight quarter-final in Rome.
Djokovic retired after losing the first set in the pair’s only prior ATP Head2Head meeting in Belgrade a decade ago. The top seed breezed past wild card Salvatore Caruso on Wednesday while World No. 29 Krajinovic backed up his defeat of #NextGenATP No. 16 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime with a win over Italian qualifier Marco Cecchinato.