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Diego Schwartzman seeks his first final as top 10

2020-10-24T19:17:57.083Z


Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime is measured at the ATP 250 in Cologne. It is televised by DirecTV Sports.


10/24/2020 3:23 PM

  • Clarín.com

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Updated 10/24/2020 4:00 PM

Diego Schwartzman is experiencing the best season of his career.

With his qualification to the final of the Masters 1000 in Rome and the semi-finals of Roland Garros, instances in which he lost to Serbian Novak Djokovic and Spanish Rafael Nadal respectively, he reached the top 10 of the ATP ranking for the first time.

The world number 9 is now looking for his first final in that condition.

For that, he will have to beat

the Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime

, barely 20 years old, whom he did not face previously on the circuit and who comes from beating the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka by 6-3 and 6-4, in the semifinals of the ATP 250 of Suburb.

The game will start around 4 pm and will be televised on

DirecTV Sports

.

The second seed of the German tournament will take to the field knowing his rival in case of winning since the German Alexander Zverev beat the Italian Jannik Sinner (46), 19 years old, 7-6 and 6-3 in one hour and 48 minutes , in the first semifinal.

This week, Schwartzman, 28, released his "top ten" ranking in Cologne and was installed among the four best in the tournament thanks to victories over the German Oscar Otte (141) and the Spanish Alejandro Davidovich (64), this last match in three sets and after saving a "match point" in the second.

The ATP 250 of Cologne will distribute prizes for 271,345 euros and began the European tour on fast surface and indoors, which the Argentine will continue next week in Austria.


Schwartzman will face the Serbian Dusan Lajovic in the opening round of the ATP 500 in Vienna, who will have Novak Djokovic, the world number one, as the top seed, according to the main draw on Saturday.

Lajovic (25) is a rival who he beat three times, in Istanbul 2017, and the 2018 and 2020 editions of the Australian Open, and with whom he lost on one occasion, in the Davis Cup series played at the Tecnópolis venue in 2015, that Argentina beat Serbia.

In the case of advancing to the round of 16, Peque would find the winner of the cross between the Pole Hubert Hurkacz (31) and a tennis player emerged from the classification.

The Vienna ATP 500 will distribute prizes of 1,550,950 euros and will have Austrian Dominic Thiem (3) as second seed, who will also defend the title.

Meanwhile, the third will be Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (5), fourth the Russian Daniil Medvedev (6), fifth his compatriot Andrey Rublev (8) and sixth Schwartzman (9).

The Viennese contest has been played since 1974 and the only Argentine to lift the trophy throughout history was Juan Martín Del Potro from Tandil, who was crowned champion in the 2012 edition.


Source: Télam

Source: clarin

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