Federico Coria hit one of the great blows this Thursday at the ATP in Buenos Aires.
The 106th in the world and younger brother of the legendary Mago, beat the British Cameron Norrie 6-2, 4-6 and 6-3 and advanced to the quarterfinals of the tournament whose big favorite is the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz, number two of the world ranking.
Fefo needed two hours and 20 minutes to take out Norrie, who was in the top ten and today is 20th in the world.
He kept the first set, then gave up the second, but gave a show of authority in the last chapter to remove one of the last finalists from the contest.
It is the fourth victory over a top 20 in his career for Coria, who advances for the second time to the quarterfinals of the tournament played at the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis.
Previously, he had won against the Spanish Pablo Carreño Busta (Lyon 2022) and the Chilean Cristian Garín twice (Bastad 2021 and Rio 2022).
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