Leandro Riedi (ATP 157) failed to sign the “hat trick” on the front of the Challenger circuit. Crowned in Helsinki and Andria in November, the Zurich native lost in the final in Canberra on Saturday.
Future world number 135 and Swiss number 3 – behind Marc-Andrea Hüsler and Dominic Stricker, Leandro Riedi was beaten 7-5 6-4 by Hungarian Marton Fucsovics (87), seeded no 1 in the table in the Australian capital. He certainly signed the break three times against the winner of the Geneva Open 2018, but conceded his own service five times in the same time.
The soon-to-be 21-year-old from Zurich had 16 consecutive successes on the Challengers front. He will now head for Melbourne, where he will try to win his ticket to the main draw of the Australian Open in qualifying.
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