Qablo Carreño, Dani Mérida and Pablo Llamas They will be in the main draw of the Masters 1000 in Rome. HE They join Rafa Jódar, Jaume Munar, Alejandro Davidovich-Fokina, and Roberto Bautista. Martín Landaluce came close to losing to local Andrea Pellegrino (3-6, 6-2 and 2-6).
Carreno He agreed to his ninth participation in the Foro Italico after the withdrawal of Swiss tennis player Stan Wawrikna before the qualifying match began. The Spaniard saved minutes after his victory in the first qualifying match against the American Martin Damm Jr.
For its part, Daniel Merida, after beating the American McDonald, He made a comeback in the third set to beat Chilean Tomás BarriosThey were 4-1 down in the decisive round. He forced the tie-break and there he advanced to the main draw 6-3, 3-6 and 7-6 (4).
Llamas was also forced to come back against the Portuguese Jaime Faria after leaving the first set. In almost two hours he sealed his presence among the best by closing the match with a 3-6, 6-2 and 6-3. He had also won the Portuguese in the first round of the previous round of the Italian tournament.
Henrique Rocha.
