Gabriel Diallo Advances in the Canadian Open After Defeating Matteo Gigante
Canadian tennis player Gabriel Diallo, known for his imposing height, achieved an important victory this Wednesday by defeating Italian Matteo Gigante at the Canadian Open. The final score was 6-3, 7-6 (5), securing his place in the third round of the tournament. Diallo, with his height of 6 feet 8 inches, completed the match in one hour and 46 minutes, in a match that was interrupted by rain. The Montreal tennis player demonstrated his tenacity by saving two set points when Gigante was leading 5-2, then managing to break his opponent’s serve and forcing a tiebreak. In the tiebreak, Gigante got to have a 5-3 lead, but Diallo held firm and won the last four points, including a double fault by Gigante on the decisive point.Diallo, who won his first ATP Tour title last month in the Netherlands, will face American Taylor Fritz, the tournament’s second seed, in the next round. Fritz defeated Roberto Carballes Baena of Spain with a score of 7-5, 7-6 (1) in a match that was also affected by rain and played at night. In other second-round matches, Ben Shelton, the fourth seed, defeated Frenchman Adrian Mannarino with a score of 6-2, 6-3. For his part, Russian Andrey Rublev, the sixth seed, beat Hugo Gaston of France, with a result of 6-2, 6-3.Tennis is sometimes quite crazy with the momentum shifts you see throughout a match.
Gabriel Diallo
