Goran Ivanisevic’s son Emanuel, 16, has adopted in his father’s footsteps, embracing tennis and making his skilled main-draw debut this week. Emanuel had misplaced within the qualifying attracts in Opatija and Dubrovnik earlier this 12 months earlier than receiving the main-draw wild card for this week’s M15 Bol occasion.
The younger gun confronted Corban Crowther within the first spherical and suffered a 6-3, 6-1 loss in an hour and 22 minutes. Emanuel served at 75%, however it didn’t convey him a lot, as he nonetheless wants time to develop something just like his father’s booming preliminary shot.
Ivanisevic dropped nearly half of the factors in his video games and suffered 4 breaks from six possibilities provided to Crowther. The younger Croat generated 5 break factors, lacking them and ending his marketing campaign within the opening spherical.
Emanuel Ivanisevic debuted at Futures at 16.
Emanuel made an ideal begin to his skilled profession, holding at love within the opening recreation of the encounter.
Ivanisevic created two break factors within the second recreation, chasing an early benefit. Crowther denied them and held, avoiding an early setback. Emanuel produced one other maintain at love for 2-1 earlier than his rival locked the end result at 2-2 with a maintain at 15.
Ivanisevic skilled points in recreation 5, saving a break level and squandering a recreation level. Corban transformed his second break alternative, transferring in entrance and touchdown two aces within the subsequent for a 4-2 benefit. Emanuel closed the seventh recreation after deuces, remaining inside one break deficit and in search of possibilities on the return.
Crowther held at 30 within the eighth recreation, transferring 5-3 in entrance and holding the strain on the opposite facet. The younger Croat suffered one other break in recreation 9, dropping the opener 6-3 and propelling his opponent nearer to the end line after 46 minutes.
The New Zealander closed the opening recreation of the second set at 30 and bounced again from 15-40 within the subsequent one, rattling off 4 factors and delivering his second break in a row that despatched him additional in entrance. Crowther closed the third recreation with three aces earlier than Ivanisevic held within the subsequent one after a deuce, remaining inside one break deficit.
Corban produced a effective maintain within the fifth recreation for a 4-1 benefit and clinched a break at 15 a couple of minutes later, transferring nearer to the end line. Crowther served for the win within the seventh recreation and skilled three break factors. He denied them and sealed the deal, sending the younger gun packing.