Faces Lorenzo Musetti for a place in the semi-final of the Italian race
Nuno Borges reached the quarter-finals of Challenger 175 in Cagliari this Thursday, after defeating Yoshihito Nishioka (78th ranking world championship), 2-1, with partials of 6/3, 6/7 [3-7] and 6/3.
In a match that lasted two hours and 33 minutes, the Maiato started to lose by 0/2, however, they won six of the next seven games played to win the first set.
In the second, the tie remained until 6/6, despite each player breaking the opponent’s service on two occasions. Nishioka was more focused on tiebreak and took advantage of the Portuguese’s drop in performance to take the duel to black.
Nuno Borges once again started the third match in the worst shape (0/2), but as in the first, he won six of the seven service games played to qualify for the next round.
In the quarter-finals, the 56th of the ranking world champion faces Lorenzo Musetti (29th), an Italian whom the 26-year-old defeated at this year’s Estoril Open.
