{"id":1231,"date":"2025-11-04T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/atp-roundup-alexandre-muller-rallies-in-third-set-to-prevail-in-athens\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:00:14","slug":"atp-roundup-alexandre-muller-rallies-in-third-set-to-prevail-in-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/atp-roundup-alexandre-muller-rallies-in-third-set-to-prevail-in-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP roundup: Alexandre Muller rallies in third set to prevail in Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\"Tennis:Aug 28, 2024; Flushing, NY, USA; Alexandre Muller (FRA) serves against Alexander Zverev (GER)(not pictured) in a men’s singles match on day three of the U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-Imagn Images <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Fifth-seeded Frenchman Alexandre Muller shook off a loss of serve while trying to win the match and a match point against in the deciding set’s 12th game and rallied to edge Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (6) in the opening round of the Hellenic Championships in Athens.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Muller, the lone seeded player in action, broke Struff at love in the third set’s third game, but the German returned the favor in the set’s 10th game. After dropping a match point opportunity, Struff bolted out to a 4-0 lead in the tiebreaker, but Muller captured the next five points and the match on his second match point chance.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Wild card and three-time Grand Slam winner Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland rallied for a 2-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5 victory over the Netherlands’ Botic van de Zandschulp. Wawrinka will face second-seeded Italian Lorenzo Musetti in the second round. Bosnian Damir Dzumhur, Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic, Czechian Vit Kopriva and Eliot Spizzirri also earned first-round victories on the hard courts in the ATP 250 event.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Seventh-seeded Cameron Norrie of Great Britain shook off a poor second-set tie-breaker and knocked off France’s Valentin Royer 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-3 in Metz, France.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Norrie, the only seeded player to compete on Monday, never lost serve in the match, but Royer was resilient, saving 4 of 6 break points. But he could not recover after losing serve in the second game of the deciding set. Both players struck 10 aces and only one double fault.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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On the comeback trail from injury, former World No. 6 Italian Matteo Berrettini ousted France’s Quentin Halys 6-2, 6-4. Other winners in the first round were Italian Lorenzo Sonego, Frenchman Clement Tabur, Ukrainian Vitaliy Sachko and American Learner Tien. The 19-year old Tien, ranked No. 38 in the world, upended France’s Ugo Blanchet 6-3, 6-3 in 66 minutes.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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