The Argentinian Sebastian Baez He beat Frenchman Corentin Moutet 6-1 and 6-2 yesterday and advanced to the second round of the ATP Hamburg, which he agreed as a lucky loser, with which the No. 164 of the world ranking will play in the next instance with the Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili (29th), whom he never faced in his career.
The second Argentine in the ATP 500 in Hamburg, which is played on brick dust, is Federico Delbonis from Blue, who will face Chinese Zhizhen Zhang.
The German Open, which this year has Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (4th) as the top favorite, was won by four Argentine tennis players in the past: Guillermo Vilas (1978), Guillermo Coria (2003), Juan Mónaco (2012) and Leonardo Mayer (2014 and 2017).
Andreozzi won in the Netherlands
The Argentinian Guido Andreozzi yesterday advanced to the second round of Challenger de tennis de Amersfoort, in the Netherlands, by defeating Czech Jiri Lehecka 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 in the debut.
Andreozzi, born in the City of Buenos Aires and ranked 206th in the ATP world ranking, surpassed the aforementioned Lehecka (257th), after two hours and 29 minutes of play.
The Buenos Aires tennis player will face Australian Aleksandar Vukic (207 °), who defeated Dutchman Robin Haase (230 °) 6-4 and 7-6 in the round of 16.
The Amersfoort tournament is played on clay surface courts, distributes 44,820 euros in prizes and has another Argentine, Facundo Mena (258th) from Buenos Aires, who today will debut in the Dutch competition against Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci (321st ).
Recall that Argentine tennis players this year conquered eight Challenger category tournaments, which is second in importance to the ATP.
Rosario Federico Coria was crowned in Prostejov, in the Czech Republic; the Buenosairean Sebastián Báez was champion in Concepción and Santiago, both in Chile, and also in Zagreb, Croatia; and the Buenosairean Juan Manuel Cerúndolo prevailed in Rome, Italy.
For his part, the Cordovan Cachín won in Oeiras, Portugal; Tomás Martín Etcheverry from La Plata was consecrated in Perugia, Italy; and Facundo Bagnis from Santa Fe won the Salzburg contest in Austria.
Victories for Tirante and Cachín in Todi, Italy
Argentines Thiago Agustín Tirante and Pedro Cachín advanced to the knockout stages of Todi’s Tennis Challenger, in Italy, by overcoming Tunisian Skander Mansouri by 6-3 and 6-2 in the debut yesterday and Facundo Díaz Acosta from Buenos Aires by 6-3 and 6-4, respectively.
Tirante from La Plata, located in 329th place in the ATP world rankings, beat Tunisian Mansouri (380 °) after one hour and 15 minutes of play, and in the second instance of the tournament he will be measured against Italian Federico Gaio ( 151 °), first seeded, who yesterday beat Croatian Viktor Galovic (534) 6-3, 6-2.
Later, the Cordovan Cachín (276 °) defeated the Buenos Aires Diaz Acosta (396 °), after an hour and 25 minutes of confrontation, to confront in the round of 16 against the winner of the cross between the Italian Gian Marco Moroni (221 °) and Chilean Nicolás Jarry (271), who will play today.
The tournament in Todi, a city in the Umbrian province of Perugia, is held on clay surface courts, distributes prizes for a total of 44,820 euros and has three other Argentines: Andrea Collarini, Renzo Olivo and Tomás Martín Etcheverry , who will be presented today Tuesday.
The Argentine naturalized American Collarini (205 °) will face the Portuguese Joao Domingues (240 °), the Rosario Olivo (192 °) will confront against the French Arthur Cazaux (399 °) and the Etcheverry (166 °) will play against the Italian Matteo Viola (260 °).
Cerúndolo entered the main draw and will play against Coria
The Argentinian Francisco Cerúndolo He surpassed the previous classification and will make his debut against his compatriot Federico Coria in the first round of the Bastad Tennis Open, played on brick dust.
Cerúndolo, 22 years old and number 116 in the ATP rankings, beat the Slovenian Blaz Rola (158) yesterday by 3-6, 6-4 and 7-6 (2), a result that assured him his access to the main draw of the Swedish tournament.
His record with Santa Fe Coria (77th) in the major circuit is tied 1-1, since he lost this year in Córdoba and then took revenge in Buenos Aires.
The other Argentine participant in Bastad will be Facundo Bagnis, whose first rival will be the Spanish Roberto Carballes Baena.
The Swedish ATP had two Argentine champions in the past: Mariano Zabaleta in 2003 and 2004 and Carlos Berlocq in 2013.
Schwartzman dropped to twelfth place
The Argentinian Diego Schwartzman it fell back to twelfth place in the ATP ranking, when a ranking update was published after the Wimbledon tournament, the third Grand Slam of the year.
The “Peque” dropped one place due to the rise of the Pole Hubert Hurkacz to 11th place, after being a semi-finalist in London.
Italian Mateo Berrettini, who was a finalist at Wimbledon, climbed to eighth place and put off Swiss Roger Federer to ninth place; while Canadian Denis Shapovalov (10th), also among the top four of the All England Club, made his entry into the “top ten” after winning two lockers.
The remaining modification among the top 10 tennis players in the world occurred with the castling between German Alexander Zverev (5th) and Austrian Dominic Thiem (6th).
The following Argentines are also located in the top 100 of the ATP ranking: Federico Delbonis (48th, lost one place), Facundo Bagnis (74th, rose 18 places), Guido Pella (75th, fell 16 places) and Federico Coria ( 77 °, after climbing a dozen steps).
On the other hand, Rosario’s Nadia Podoroska climbed three steps and was ranked 36th in the WTA ranking, which implies a new improvement of the maximum record of her career.
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