Wawrinka's opponent: From the Locked to Italy's number 1

in the Meantime, the world of the Italian tennis player Marco Cecchinato is in order. He is number 16 in the world and is therefore classified as never before. He has won a few weeks ago, his third ATP tournament. And he plays today in the spring sunshine of Monte Carlo against Stan to enter the eighth-final of the Masters 1000-tournament.

In the summer of 2016, because Cecchinato was arrived at the very bottom. He had lost the year before in Morocco at a Challenger tournament in a game so that the supervision occurred authorities with the suspicion of match-fixing on the Plan.

The Italian tennis Federation 23 locked Cecchinato for 18 months, and growled the then-on-Year to a fine of 40’000 Euro. That was a lot of money for a professional athlete who had reached on the ATP Tour, still hardly anything, in a Sport in which the best hundred from the comfort of your can Do life.

lowlands and the semi-final in Paris

However, Cecchinato appealed and was lucky: The Italian Olympic Committee dropped all sanctions, due to irregularities in the taking of evidence. The Sicilians returned to the Tour and played through the lowlands of the tennis scene, through the Challenger tournament in Prostejov, or Irving, in Fano or Szczecin.

in other words: Cecchinatos life was held off of those title fights, which will be borne by the transmission stations, fully prepared out into the world. By the year 2018, as he said in Paris this sentence: "This is the best Moment of my life."

Cecchinato had the Belgian David Goffin in the quarter-finals of the French Open, defeated, and stood before the quarter-final against Novak Djokovic. And now Cecchinato, the Serbian world number 1 faced – which gave him an even better Moment in his life, because Cecchinato won against Djokovic. 30 years after Corrado Barazzutti, a Italians reached for the first time in a Grand Slam semi-final.

Marco Cecchinatos victory against Novak Djokovic in the moving image. (Source: Youtube)

There Dominic Thiem was too strong. However, Cecchinato feeds are still from this success in Paris. 720 its 2021 points since Roland Garros in 2018 on the account and so make up a big part of his world ranking.

500 points collected by the 26-Year-old as the winner of the fourth-class tournaments in Budapest and Umag. All these points must be the Italian number 1 to 22. July to defend, otherwise the rear seats in the world rankings threaten the first Sicilian tournament winner.

Wawrinka continues to gain ground

More on the rise, meanwhile, Cecchinatos opponent Stan Wawrinka. He has to defend from the previous year, no points in Monte Carlo. After the Romand did in the first round of the French Lucas Pouille defeated, and said to the press that he believed, "to achieve Great", also appears to be Cecchinato to be not an impossible hurdle.

On paper, the Tableau would then one-eighth final against Marin Cilic, and a quarter-final against Rafael Nadal. (saw)

Created: 16.04.2019, 13:33 PM