Tunisian tennis player Aziz Dougaz qualified Tuesday for the second round of the Challenger tournament in Ségovia, Spain, beating French Robin Catry in three sets. He will face the Spaniard Nicolas Alvarez Varona on Thursday.
Ranked by 225th in the world, Aziz Dougaz won its ticket for the second round of the Spanish tournament in Ségovia, disputed on hard surface, overcoming French Robin Catry (626th in the world), on the score of 6-3, 3-6, 7-5.
The match, hung, lasted almost two hours, and Dougaz was able to make a difference in the third set by winning a crucial decisive game.
In the second round, scheduled for Thursday, the Tunisian will meet the spanish racket Nicolas Alvarez Varona (298th in the world), winner of Chinese Fajing Sun (201e in the world) in two sets: 6-3, 6-2.
The Ségovie tournament is part of the ATP Challenger circuit and offers a global allocation of around 91,000 euros.
This performance is part of the positive dynamics of the Tunisian player, which won the ITF tournament of Monastir (15,000 dollars) by defeating French Cyril Vandermeersch (745th in the world) in the final on Sunday, on the score of 2 sets at 1.
