Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) – Number one of Uzbekistan Denis Istomin began participating in the Challenger, which takes place in the city of Biella (Italy). It is noteworthy that our representative won in the very first match of the restart.

In the game against the Ukrainian Ilya Marchenko, which lasted 1 hour 50 minutes, Istomin won with a score of 7:6, 6:2. After this game, Istomin managed to reduce the score in the personal confrontation to the minimum, 3: 4.

For information, Denis Istomin is currently ranked 169 in the world ranking, and Marchenko is 210. In the second round our representative will play with the winner of the match between Lorency and Napolitano.