Present in the main draw in Cincinnati after his qualifying victories against the Italian Matteo Arnaldi (61st in the world) and the German Daniel Altmaier (52nd), Corentin Moutet did not follow up with a third consecutive victory in Ohio. On Monday, the 24-year-old Frenchman lost sharply in the first round (6-4, 6-2) to Finland’s Emil Ruusuvuori, 60th in the ATP rankings.
Corentin Moutet trembled from the start of the match, delayed nearly three hours due to rain, erasing two break points on his serve. If he then tied the game with his opponent, up to 4-4 in the first set, the loss of five games in a row between the end of the first set and the start of the second (6-4, 3- 0) robbed him of all hope of victory.
No break point obtained
Unable to catch up, the French ended the match on a double fault, without having obtained the slightest break point in just over 1h30 of play. The 77th player in the world continues his black series on hard court after his eliminations from entry in Washington and Atlanta, and in the second round of qualifying in Toronto.
Emil Ruusuvuori, he reached the second round in Cincinnati for the third time after 2020 and 2022. He will face the No. 7 seed, Russian Andrey Rublev.
