He arrived in Buenos Aires with renewed expectations, but Diego Schwartzman (arrived in 32nd place in the ATP Ranking) still unable to overcome a difficult scenario in his campaign after being the best Argentine racket for three years. El Peque was eliminated at its premiere at the Argentina Open after losing 6-1 y 6-3 before the Spanish Bernabe Zapata Miralles (74th), after one hour and 17 minutes, the second shortest match of the tournament that takes place at the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club (BALTC).
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The brand new racket number one in the country beat Yannick Hanfmann (6-2, 4-6 and 7-5). Facundo Díaz Acosta surprised Fefo Coria 7-6, (7-5) and 7-5. And Báez fell to Dusan Lajovic (7-6 and 6-3). The other Argentine winners of the day
The Court Central Guillermo Vilas hosted the singles matches for the round of 16 and the most anticipated was Schwartzman, who despite his bad moment had the full support of the fans. “Diego, Diego”, was the cry that was heard from the stands and some 3.000 personas they encouraged the 30-year-old from Buenos Aires.
Zapata Miralles had a brilliant first set and broke Peque’s serve three times to prevail 6-1 in 34 minutes, and maintained his dominance in the second despite the fact that the public tried to distract him with constant encouragement to see if he would get a reaction. something that didn’t happen.
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It was not surprising that he broke Schwartzman’s serve again two more times to go ahead 1-0 and 3-0 and leave the game almost resolved despite Peque’s reaction, which was not enough.
Schwartzman lost 12 of the last 13 games who played for the last six months and next week will continue his precipitous fall in the ranking, since will drop to 38th place after having been 16th in the world until August 2022.
Peque’s executioner will play this Friday for the quarterfinals against Francisco Cerundolothe current number one in Argentine tennis (30th) who reached the quarterfinals after overwhelming the Mallorcan James Munar (67°) by 6-2 y 6-1after an hour and 11 minutes of play, the shortest duel of the tournament.
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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
Fran, 23 years old and champion last year in Bastad, Sweden, played his best game of the year and overwhelmed the Spaniard, who was by no means the one who had beaten the Bahian last Monday Guido Pella (723°).
Cerúndolo played an excellent first set, with a deep and heavy forehand he overwhelmed the Spaniard on all sides and took the first lead with a break to lead 3-2, then he returned to seize Munar’s serve and stretched to 5-2 to close the match. partial by 6-2.
Munar, who had just suffered great physical wear in his previous match against Pella, requested medical attention twice in the opening set for muscle discomfort, but he continued to compete anyway.
In the second set, Cerúndolo continued punishing with his forehand and comfortably won his service game, against an opponent who could not contain him, so he broke two more times to go up 4-0 and leave victory within reach.
Munar tried to react and that’s where another virtue of the Argentine emerged, which was patience to better select his shots and not risk more than he should.
Cerúndolo adjusted the return and broke Munar three times, to go ahead 1-0, 3-0 and finally the 6-1 that decorated the score, despite the fact that it was difficult for him to define it and he only achieved it with the fifth match point he had, to celebrate it at length with the public that did not stop encouraging him at any time.
The others who advanced to the quarterfinals were the Peruvian John Paul Varillas (101°), and the Italian Lorenzo Musetti (20), third seed of the tournament.
Rods eliminated the Austrian Dominic Thiem (99th), two-time champion in Buenos Aires and winner of the US Open in 2020, after beating him 6-4, 6-4 after an hour and 47 minutes of play in the match that opened the rainy and cool day at the property located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo.
Musetti, for his part, took Cordoba out of the tournament Pedro Cachín (68th) after beating him 6-2, 6-3 in an intense match that lasted one hour and 22 minutes.
For this Friday, the other Argentine with chances in the tournament is expected, the player from La Plata Tomas Martin Etcheverry (82nd), who will play against the British Cameron Norrie (12th), second favorite for the title after the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz (2nd), who debuted with a win against and in the quarterfinals will face the Serbian Dusan Lajovic (90°). The other meeting will be carried out by the Peruvian John Paul Varillas and the italian Lorenzo Musetti.
With information from Telam
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