Otto Virtanen has lost to Australia’s Alex de Minaur in a second-round match in straight sets at the US Open tennis tournament late Thursday.
Placed tenth in the tournament Alex de Minaur turned out to be too hard Otto Virtanen In the second round of the US Open in New York.
The Australian won the match directly in three sets, 7–5, 6–1 and 7–6 (7-3) in two hours and seven minutes.
Virtanen, who reached the main series through the qualifiers, started the fight strongly, leading the opening set 5–2, but lost five consecutive games to de Minauri, who raised his level after that, and the opening set 5–7 at the same time.
In the second set, the Finn’s sore lower back was treated in a 1–2 situation.
In the third set and its 12th game, Virtanen cleared the opponent’s match point once. In the tiebreak, de Minaur quickly took a 4–0 lead and took it convincingly with numbers 7–3.
Virtanen reached the second round of a grand slam for the second time in his career. The last time he was able to do the same was at Wimbledon in July.