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5/7/09 3:20 AM | Cheryl Murray
Gaston Gaudio’s bid for an ATP comeback in Estoril was pre-empted by Italian clay-courter Fabio Fognini.
In a week where Argentina’s Guillermo Coria announced his retirement from professional tennis, the man who upset him in the final of the French Open in 2004 started forging a comeback from a series of possibly career-ending injuries. Gaston Gaudio was the winner of the Tunis Challenger event last week, and gained a wild card into Estoril. Unfortunately, the Argentine ran into Fabio Fognini in the opening round.
Fognini is ranked 75th in the world at the moment, low enough that he is forced to qualify for bigger tournaments. He did just that in Monte Carlo, where he was eventually ousted in the third round by Andy Murray. The Italian had direct entry into Estoril however.
Wednesday’s first-round match was reasonably well played by Fognini. The Italian particularly took advantage of Gaudio’s second serve, which more often than not landed far too short and with too little pace to be anything but a liability. Fognini broke Gaudio once in the first set to take a comfortable one-set lead.
Gaudio at least made a little headway in the second set. He managed to break Fognini once, but like the first set, he struggled on his own serve. The Argentine dropped serve twice to give Fognini the win.
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