Román Burruchaga will never forget this Tuesday, February 6, 2024
.
Not only because his father
Jorge
- champion of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico when he was not yet born - was present accompanying him in his debut in a main draw on the ATP professional circuit, but also because he did it with a resounding triumph:
he took out the tournament In the first round, Diego Schwartzman, who was 8th in the world and extended his negative streak.
Burruchaga, 22 years old and number 170 in the world ranking, needed four match points to win
6-1, 4-6 and 6-4
in two hours and 18 minutes of play on the central court of the Mario Alberto Kempes stadium. , from the capital of Cordoba.
A night he'll never forget 🙌
🇦🇷 Roman Andres Burruchaga defeats Schwartzman 6-1 4-6 6-4 in his ATP Tour debut! #CordobaOpen pic.twitter.com/Csfglzvmxy
— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) February 7, 2024
"I am very happy for the victory, against a rival like Diego. My dad came to see me with my team, he was suffering a little. The idea is to climb the ranking as much as possible, learning, training and improving, and then the results come "
, he acknowledged.
Regarding the game, he analyzed:
"I was controlling the match well, but it is never easy to close the match. I learned from the second set, it almost happened to me in the third, but I was able to close it and I am very happy to have won
. "
The winner now awaits the winner of the cross between the Peruvian
Juan Pablo Varillas
(85) and the German
Yannick Hanfmann
(59).
And Schwartzman also spoke, who has not won an ATP match since October 2023 when he beat Fran Cerúndolo in the first round of the ATP 500 in Tokyo.
"Off the court I'm very good, but on the court it's hard for me, I don't have to turn it around. There are different reasons that don't make me play at the level I've had. It's a long streak, except for a few months at the end of last year "Today I repeated but I don't want to go into too much detail about mine. I want to congratulate Román, who was with his father, who is very important for Argentina and for me, who is a big football fan
," he explained.
The emotion of Federico Coria
The one who was able to end a negative streak was Federico Coria
from Rosario
, who defeated German
Daniel Altmaier
5-7, 6-3 and 6-4 in the opening round of ATP 250 Córdoba Open, which distributes prizes of $640,705.
The man from Rosario, 93rd in the ATP ranking and runner-up of the 2023 edition, recovered after losing the first set, in which he was up 5-3 and with serve in his favor, and finally beat the 52nd in the world in two hours and 45 minutes of play.
Marathon Man 🏃🏻♂️@fedeecoria outlasts Altmaier 5-7 6-3 6-4 for a win on home soil 🇦🇷#CordobaOpen pic.twitter.com/oyWri9eWQ4
— Tennis TV (@TennisTV) February 6, 2024
It took almost seven months for the younger brother of Guillermo Coria, current captain of the albiceleste team in the Davis Cup, to be able to celebrate at the ATP level, after having 'gone down' to Challengers in which he had won titles and finals.
In the next instance, "Fefo", 31 years old, will face the Spanish Albert Ramos Viñolas (84), who has just defeated Pedro Cachín (73) from Córdoba by 6-4, 3-6 and 6-1.
The top favorite for the title at the Córdoba Open is the Argentine Francisco Cerúndolo (22), who will debut directly in the round of 16 against the Spanish Jaume Munar (74),
The second seed is another Argentine, Sebastián Báez (26), who is also the current champion.
Báez, hero of the Davis Cup series that Argentina beat Kazakhstan 3-2 over the weekend in Rosario, will debut in the round of 16 against the Bolivian Hugo Dellien (112).