Reaffirm the set up and continue rediscovering with his best tennis
.
Beyond the results, the Argentine
Diego Schwartzman
(38th in the world ranking) will face the Danish
Holger Rune
(8th) this Sunday with the aim of ratifying his good performance last Friday in the debut of the
Masters 1,000 in Miami
, on hard surface .
It will be from 1:15 p.m., with ESPN television.
The tennis player from Buenos Aires began his participation in the second stage of the competition with a victory over the Chinese
Yibing Wu
(64th) by 7-6 (1) and 6-1.
Now it will be his turn to face off against a rival he has never faced before and in this way inaugurate the history between the two on the professional circuit.
In case of advancing to the next instance, Schwartzman will cross paths with the winner of the duel that will also star this Sunday the American
Taylor Fritz
(10th) and the Canadian
Denis Shapovalov
(30th).
Fran Cerúndolo, the only one on Saturday
Francisco Cerúndolo
advanced to the third round of the Miami Masters 1000, which is played on hard courts and distributes 8.8 million dollars in prizes, by defeating the American Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-4, 6-4,
on
a Saturday day which had as a counterpart the defeats of
Sebastián Báez
and
Tomás Etcheverry.
In the match that opened the day on court 7 of the Hard Rock Stadium complex in Miami Gardens, Cerúndolo, 24 years old and 31st in the ATP ranking, managed from the start against an opponent of his same age and 102 ° in the world ranking.
After having advanced without playing the first round thanks to his seeded status, Cerúndolo took a firm first step in a contest that last year had him as a semifinalist (he lost to the Norwegian Casper Ruud).
His next opponent will be the Canadian
Felix Auger-Aliassime
(6th) who beat the Brazilian Thiago Monteiro (81st) in a balanced match that was defined in two tie breaks 7-6 (5) and 7-6 (8 ).
Who did not have the same luck on court 7 was the Buenos Aires native Sebastián Báez (33rd), who in his debut lost to the Chilean Cristian Garín (82nd), against whom he had a positive record of two victories in the same number of matches .
On court 1, Tomas Martín Etcheverry (73rd) from La Plata, who made his debut with a victory over Russian Pavel Kotov (117th), fell to Russian Karen Khachanov (16th) 1-6, 6-3 and 3-6.
The Miami tournament is held until April 2 with the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz as defending champion and world number one and without Rafa Nadal or the Serbian Novak Djokovic, absent due to his refusal to vaccinate against the coronavirus.
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Miami Masters 1000, day 4: Francisco Cerúndolo debuted with a solid win and advances