This Wednesday, in the 2nd round of the Geneva tournament, Adrian Mannarino was beaten by the Belarusian Ilya Ivashka (6-4, 4-6, 6-3) and is still struggling to continue on clay.
Decidedly, Adrian Mannarino still has so much trouble existing on the ocher surface. Indeed, while he had released the Serbian Filip Krajinovic in the 1st round, the Frenchman fell back into his failings against Ilya Ivashka, winner this Wednesday in three sets (6-4, 4-6, 6-3) and 2h40 In Geneva, if the current 47th in the world in the ATP rankings managed to catch up in the first set by equalizing at 3-3, after a break against him at 1-1, he again lost his service in the stride. A sufficient advantage for the Belarusian to pocket the first set and race in the lead on Swiss clay. Subsequently, the two players had great difficulty in retaining their services. In a round with seven breaks in all (out of ten games), Mannarino cracked once less than the 86th in the world and was thus able to pick up the score. In the third and final set, the situation continued with three breaks in the first four games.
Mannarino lacking benchmarks before Roland-Garros
Unfortunately for the Frenchman, it was Ivashka who took the opportunity this time to race to victory by quickly leading 3-0, before slightly reviving the Ile-de-France player (3-1). Behind, the Belarusian was almost no longer worried about his face-offs and gradually got closer to qualifying. At 5-3 in his favor, the latter concluded this match in style with a last break acquired on his fourth match point. In the next round, Ivashka will face an American, namely the winner of the match between Taylor Fritz and Marcos Giron. For his part, Mannarino will take the direction of the Porte d’Auteuil to play Roland-Garros, from May 28. Beaten early in Monte-Carlo, Madrid and Rome, as well as during the Challengers in Aix-en-Provence and Bordeaux, the Frenchman will try to bounce back on clay in Paris. Which is far from won given his love for this surface…
