Making his first appearance since his first-round Wimbledon<\/a> exit, Berrettini was unable to withstand the 22-year-old Czech\u2019s fearless ball-striking at the Chinese ATP 250 event. Despite losing in the second round of qualifying just a day earlier, Svrcina grabbed his chance as a lucky loser and has risen 10 spots to a career-high No. 89 in the PIF ATP Live Rankings.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously I wasn\u2019t the favourite coming into this match, so I just wanted to come here, enjoy and play freely,\u201d said Svrcina. \u201cYesterday I lost in the qualies, so I\u2019m happy I got the chance to play again and I think I made the most out of it.<\/p>\n \u201cMatteo is an incredible player, he\u2019s coming [back] from injury\u2026 Obviously he\u2019s not where he wants to be, but I\u2019m very happy with the win today and it\u2019s the biggest of my career so far.\u201d<\/p>\n Backed by rock-solid defence and quick court coverage, Svrcina struck 17 winners to Berrettini\u2019s 11 and saved the only break point he faced, according to Infosys ATP Stats, during their 85-minute battle. His reward: a second-round clash with Buyunchaokete or Zhang Zhizhen.<\/p>\n Berrettini, who had reached quarter-finals in Miami, Dubai and Doha earlier this year \u2014 including his first win over Novak Djokovic<\/a> \u2014 showed signs of rust after a two-and-a-half month layoff, tallying 15 unforced errors in his maiden Lexus ATP Head2Head match with Svrcina.<\/p>\n In other Day 2 action in Hangzhou, Tomas Martin Etcheverry<\/a> eased past Damir Dzumhur<\/a> 6-2, 6-4 to notch his 20th tour-level victory of the season, becoming the second Argentine to do so after Francisco Cerundolo<\/a> (33). Etcheverry awaits qualifier Rinky Hijikata<\/a> or fifth seed Camilo Ugo Carabelli<\/a>.<\/p>\n Qualifier Nishesh Basavareddy<\/a> booked his spot in the second round by rallying past defending champion Marin Cilic<\/a> 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. The 20-year-old, who made his debut at the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF<\/a> last year, is up one spot to sixth in the PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah and will next play second seed Daniil Medvedev<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hangzhou Berrettini’s comeback halted by lucky loser Svrcina in Hangzhou opener Qualifier Basavareddy defeats defending champion Cilic September…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-165508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"It](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758202567_466_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/)
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