A tournament to forget, the one in which Arnaldi and Bellucci took part. The two tennis players had to say goodbye to the competition already in the first round of the “Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships”, the ATP 500 worth 1,818,380 dollars underway on the hard courts of the Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo. Arnaldi, number 33 in the world, had to surrender to the domination of the American Tommy Paulwhile ATP number 103 Bellucci gave way to the British Jack Draper.
The matches of the two blues
The challenges of Arnaldi and Bellucci took place at the same time, unfortunately with the same result. A bitter defeat for Arnaldi by 2-0 – 6-3,6-2 – against ATP number 13 and fifth seed Tommy Paul. The Sanremo native suffered his 12th defeat in 29 matches of the season on hard courts. Bellucci managed to qualify for the second time this season and in his career for the main draw of an ATP 500, but the 23-year-old from Busto Arsizio he had to surrender on Japanese soil by 6-4,6-2 (2-0) leaving room for world number 20 and fresh US Open semi-finalist Jack Draper. This leaves only one Italian in the draw: Matthew Berrettini. The Italian is the first Italian to win a main draw match in Tokyo since 2010, and awaits the winner of the challenge between Taylor Fritz, finalist at the US Open, and Arthur Fils in the second round.
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