This Tuesday another day of the tennis open was held Argentina Openone of the most important in the region and which takes place in the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club (BALTC). Among the most important results were the long-suffering triumph of Francisco Cerundolo (30th in the ATP ranking), which debuted as the number one racket in the country, and the surprise defeats of Sebastian Baez (36°) y Frederick Coria (49 °), which fell against Facundo Diaz Acostagreat national promise.
In a final between Argentines, Sebastián Báez defeated Federico Coria in three sets and won the Córdoba Open
The winner had to battle for almost two hours to prevail 6-1, 3-6 and 6-3. It was the first victory in 2023 of an albiceleste representative in the men’s circuit
Fran Cerúndolo showed too many ups and downs although he finally brought out his power to settle today in the round of 16, thanks to a hard-fought victory over the German Yannick Hanfmann by 6-2, 4-6 y 7-5 in two hours and 33 minutes on the center court of the BALTC.
The match began with the German too cold despite the high temperature under which the match was played, at times oppressive, and that was used by Fran to get an appreciable 3-0 advantage without having to throw too many “winners”, just looking for the points and making his rival uncomfortable.
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Cerúndolo stretched his advantage with sheer power with his forehands, thus making it 4-1 and then closing 6-2, due to his own merits and also because the German made too many unforced errors.
The Argentine, who had beaten Hanfmann last year in the “qualification” to enter the main draw in Buenos Aires, this time 7-6 (7-4) and 6-1, went ahead 3-0 in the second partial and seemed to be heading to close the game, but a series of bad decisions prevented it.
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The Cordovan beat the Brazilian Thiago Monteiro 7-6 (2) and 6-4. While the man from Bahia fell to the Spanish Jaume Munar 6-4, 7-5 in an exciting match
The German lowered his percentage of errors and came close on the scoreboard until equalizing it, then went to the front and took the partial 6-4.
In the third set, the German was the one who controlled the entire match until he went ahead 5-4 and served to win it, but Cerúndolo experienced a great reaction at that moment and turned what seemed like defeat into victory after taking the set by 7 -5.
“I was playing a great match during the first set and a half, I felt good, comfortable, but suddenly everything changed when I lost four games in a row. He shot and hit and nothing came of it for me, although he never lost faith and knew that this could be reversed, ”Fran analyzed after his long-suffering victory.
Cerúndolo feels comfortable in Buenos Aires, in fact he was a finalist in the tournament in the 2021 edition, and a quarterfinalist last year, both times defeated by the Diego Schwartzman (32°).
“I like playing here and I am happy to be number one in Argentina, although I also understand that now I have more pressure and also that there are more expectations placed on what I do,” concluded Cerúndolo, who will play in the round of 16 against the tough Spaniard. James Munar (67th), who last night eliminated the Bahian Guido Pella (723 °) after beating him 6-4 and 7-5.
As long as he also accessed that instance Facundo Diaz Acostaafter achieving the most important victory of his career, by winning the duel of Argentines over Frederick Coria by 7-6 (7-5) and 7-5.
Díaz Acosta, ranked 191st in the ATP world ranking, caused the big surprise of the day, which happened on court number 2 with his victory over Fefo Coria, who had just been a finalist last Sunday at the Córdoba Open.
The Vicente López tennis player will play again this Wednesday and his rival will be the British Cameron Norrie (12), second seed who will enter the tournament directly in the round of 16, like the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz (2nd), the Italian Lorenzo Musetti (20°) and the little schwartzman.
Another blow was the stumble of Sebastian Baez, recent winner of the Córdoba Open, who could not continue his good fight and lost a match that he had controlled, in fact he was up a set and 5-3, and then he took a 4-1 lead in the tie break that he finally lost. After two and a half hours earlier he fell to the Serb Dusan Lajovic that surpassed it 7-6 and 6-3.
But there were more Argentine victories. the platense Tomas Martin Etcheverry (82nd), who performed from lowest to highest and settled for the first time in his career in the round of 16 of the Buenos Aires ATP after winning over the Bolivian Hugo Dellien (107th) by 3-6, 6-2 and 6-2. He will play his next game against the Spanish Roberto Carballes Baena.
while the porteño Camilo Ugo Carabelli (127) beat the Colombian in the initial round Daniel Elahí Galán (85) by 7-6 (9-7) and 6-3, after just over two hours of play. Carabelli will then face Lajovic.
This Wednesday the debut of alcarazwho will play his round of 16 match with the Serbian Laszlo Djerenot before 8:00 p.m. in the central court Guillermo Villas. Meanwhile he small Schwartzman He will do the same on Thursday against the Spanish Bernabe Zapata Mirallesat a time to be confirmed.
With information from Telam
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