The Spanish Roberto Carballés could not take advantage of the second opportunity that Adelaida International 2 gave him. Carballés, who entered as a ‘lucky loser’ due to the loss of Italian Lorenzo Musetti, he could not with the French Benjamin Bonzi, who defeated him by a double 6-3.
Carballés ran into the French tennis player, who was very solid on serve, as he did not grant any option to break the Spanish, while the Tenerife player did give up his service on three occasions, which caused his defeat.
In the rest of the results of the main table, they stand out the defeat of the South African Lloyd Harris, fifth seed for the title, at the hands of South Korean Soonwoo Kwon by 5-7, 7-5 and 6-4, and the victory of the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics, sixth seed, 6-3 and 7-6 ($) against Botic Van de Zandschulp.
Sabalenka does not lift her head
The big news of the day at the Adelaida International came in the women’s team, where the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, world number 2 and first favorite for the title, fell 5-7, 6-1 and 7-5 against Sweden’s Rebecca Peterson.
It is Sabalenka’s second loss to the first of exchange in two tournaments played so far in 2022, so doubts increase about the Belarusian tennis player just one week before the Australian Open.
In the rest of the day’s results, the victories of Tamara Zidansek (2-6, 6-2 and 7-6 (4) against Heather Watson) and Liudmila Samsonova (7-6 (2) and 6-4 against Mayar Sherif stand out ) and the losses of Jill Teichmann against Lauren Davis (1-6, 7-6 (3) and 6-4) and Sorana Cirstea (6-3 and 6-2).