06/05/2021 8:53 AM
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Updated 06/05/2021 8:53 AM
Diego Schwartzman easily advanced to the round of 16 at Roland Garros by defeating German Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-4, 6-2 and 6-1, thus scoring his name among the 16 best players of the third Grand Slam for the third time. of the season, which is disputed on brick dust and this year awards prizes for 17,171,108 euros.
Faced with an adversary who showed physical problems,
Peque
, 10th in the ATP ranking, led the game very quickly and ended up winning after two hours and two minutes of play at the Suzanne Lenglen stadium against Kohlschreiber, 37 years old and 132nd in the world rankings.
The porteño, who had fallen in the only previous duel against the Teuton (in 2017 in Vienna on a hard court), will face the winner of the match in the next round with the surprising Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, just 18 years old, 97th in the ranking and coming from the qualy;
and the German Jan-Lennard Struff (42 °).
A genius on the track @ dieschwartzman #RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/fbP1uqRW6C
- ATP Tour in Spanish (@ATPTour_ES) June 5, 2021
Schwartzman will try to settle this commitment in the same way as the two previous times in which he reached the round of 16, since in both he surpassed that instance: in 2018 he reached the quarter-finals and last year, the semifinals.
Both times he was defeated by the Spanish Rafael Nadal.
The
Peque
is not the only Argentine who has already made it through three rounds in Paris.
So did Federico Delbonis (51st), who on Friday beat Italian Fabio Fognini (29th) and thus recorded his best performance in a Grand Slam.
On Sunday he will face the Spanish Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (46 °).
This Saturday the members of the Big Three will also be active: Serbian Novak Djokovic, world number one, will play with Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis (93rd);
Nadal (3rd), 13 times champion on French brick dust, will face Briton Cameron Norrie (45th);
and the Swiss Roger Federer (8th) will face the German Dominik Koepfer (59th).
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