Fognini playing for the second round of the Cincinnati Masters 1000
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The Argentine tennis player Guido Pella will face the Italian Fabio Fognini this Tuesday for the second round of the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati, which will distribute prizes for 3,707,550 dollars and It is part of the cement tour prior to the US Open, the fourth and last Grand Slam of the year that will be played at the end of the month in New York.
Pella, born in Baha Blanca and ranked 93rd in the ATP world rankings, will be measured against Fognini (36) not before 18 (Argentine time), and the winner will be played in the round of 16 by the South African Lloyd Harris (46) or the German Alexander Zverev (5), third favorite for the title of the contest.
The history between Pella and Fognini favors the Italian 3-2 after winning the 2017 Davis Cup series played in Sarmiento Park, in the 2020 Australian Open and this year in Geneva, while the “left-hander” from Bahia I beat him at São Paulo 2013 and Munich 2017.
The Cincinnati Masters 1000 does not have in its current edition the maximum attraction of the circuit, the presence of the “Big Three” (Djokovic, Nadal and Federer) and neither is the Austrian Dominic Thiem, with a wrist injury.”
The 31-year-old Argentine appeared in Cincinnati with a victory over Belgian David Goffin (19), the fourth he achieved this year against 13 defeats (a dozen in opening rounds), while Fognini defeated Georgian Nikoloz in his debut. Basilashvili (40).
The other Argentine who goes ahead in the tournament, Diego Schwartzman (14), beat Briton Evans (28) on Monday night in the opening round and played again on Wednesday. in front of the winner of the crossing that will cheer up from the 15 the American Frances Tiafoe (51) and the French Ugo Humbert (29).
The Cincinnati Masters 1000 does not have in its current edition the maximum attraction of the circuit, the presence of the “Big Three” (the Serbian Novak Djokovic, the Spanish Rafael Nadal and the Swiss Roger Federer) and neither is the Austrian Dominic Thiem, with a wrist injury.
The top favorite for the title is Russian Daniil Medvedev (2), champion of the 2019 edition of the competition and also winner of the Montreal Masters 1000 last Sunday.”
In the case of Federer, at the weekend announced that he would have surgery on his right knee again. and he will miss the remainder of the season, his return at 40 years old and with a worn physique being an unknown.
The top favorite for the title is Russian Daniil Medvedev (2), champion of the 2019 edition of the competition and also winner of the Montreal Masters 1000 last Sunday.
The Russian will enter to play directly in the second round and tomorrow face the local Mackenzie McDonald (64), who eliminated his compatriot Brandon Nakashima (87).
The second seed is the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (4) and the third the mentioned German “Sascha” Zverev (5), who reappears on the circuit after having won the gold medal in the recent Olympic Games in Tokyo.
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