Diego Schwartzman, eliminated at the Australian Open: fell to one of the revelations of the tournament

02/12/2021 7:11 AM

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Updated 02/12/2021 7:16 AM

Argentine tennis player Diego Schwartzman, eighth seeded, was eliminated from the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the year to be played in Melbourne, after losing this morning in the third round with Russian Aslan Karatsev 6-3, 6 -3 and 6-3.

Schwartzman, ranked ninth in the ATP world rankings, was

clearly outmatched

by Karatsev's powerful and offensive play (114th) in one hour and 52 minutes of play.

The 28-year-old "Peque" had surpassed the Swedish Elías Ymer (205) and the French Alexandre Muller (210) in the previous rounds, but could not repeat those performances and fell without mitigating against Karatsev.

Unstoppable.

Karatsev had 50 winners in the match against "Little" Schwartzman.

(AFP)

The 27-year-old Russian

made 50 winners

against just five from the Argentine and

is the revelation of the tournament

, since in his absolute debut in a Grand Slam he did not give up any set in the three games he won, the previous ones to the Italian Gianluca Mager (96) and the Belarusian Igor Gerasimov (79).

Karatsev's next rival will be a Canadian who will emerge from the cross between Denis Shapovalov (12) and Félix Augier-Aliassime (19), while Schwartzman leaves Australia

without being able to repeat his performances of the 2018 and 2020 editions

when he reached the eighth final and lost with the Spanish Rafael Nadal and the Serbian Novak Djokovic, respectively.

Disappointment.

The "Peque" could not repeat the performances of 2018 and 2020. (AP)

With the elimination of "Peque", there are no more Argentines in the singles chart, and Tenisa, who had previously been eliminated by Federico Coria (92), Juan Ignacio Londero (83) and Guido Pella (44), and in ladies, Rosario Nadia Podoroska ( Four. Five).

In the doubles

draw, Máximo González from Tandil continues

along with Italian Simone Bolelli, as they settled in the third round after beating the pair made up of Italians Lorenzo Sonego and Andrea Vavassori by 6-2 and 7-6 (7-6). 5).