2023-05-30 18:49:07
The debut of the Argentines at Roland Garros continues with an extremely positive outcome after the victories of Francisco Cerundolo and Genaro Olivieri They went to the second round today.
In that phase they are already after their victories yesterday: Diego Schwartzman, Thomas Etcheverry, Thiago Tirante and Peter Cachin. In the women’s box, it also had a favorable debut Nadia Podoroska. The only defeats so far were by Federico Coria and Facundo Diaz Acosta.
The first to go out on the field this Tuesday was Genaro Olivieri, player who is ranked number 231 in the ATP ranking (he will already advance to 191) and who had entered the main draw after overcoming the classification.
in what was his absolute debut in a Grand Slamthe Argentine played against the young French Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard and was able to reverse a two set deficit to one to win por 7-6(3), 4-6, 4-6, 7-5 y 6-1showing his great character to advance to the second round.
In this instance it will be measured against the Italian Andrea Vavassoriwho gave one of the surprises of the day and left the Serbian on the road Miomir KecmanovicNo. 37 in the world.
Then it was the turn of Francisco Cerundoloof a very good season that allowed him to be the best ranked argentinian (he is already number 23 in the world), who did not have it easy against a complicated player like the Spanish James Munar
After comfortably winning the first set (6-1), Cerúndolo’s level dropped a lot and he lost the second quarter due to 6-2.
The key moment of the match was in the third set, which had to be defined in the tie-break. It was there when Cerúndolo imposed his category and took over the “sudden death” for 7-5.
In the fourth sleeve and already with much more confidence for having the game on track, Cerúndolo did not give opportunities to Munar and prevailed 6-1 to advance to the second round, where they will face the winner of the match between the Brazilian Thiago Monteiro and the German Yannick Hanfmann.
they are playing right now Guido Pella (defining in the fifth set) and Sebastian Baezagainst the locals Quentyn Halys and Gael Monfils respectively.
Medvedev lost in the surprise of the day
The Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev, No. 2 in the world, lost in the first round of Roland Garros against the brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild (172 in the ranking) by 7-6(5), 6-7(6), 2-6, 6-3 and 6-4.
Medvedev has been having a great year and also had an excellent tour on clay, with a title included in Rome. This generated that he was presented to the second Grand Slam of the season as one of the candidates, but it was not even the shadow of what he showed in recent months.
For his part, Seyboth Wild, which should have passed the classification To enter the main draw, he was very firm in all his shots and also knew how to overcome the adversities that came his way throughout the match against a world-class rival.
The first two sets were very even, but when Medvedev was left with the tie-break of the second Partial it seemed that the balance was tipping to his side since in the third he left no room for doubt and passed over his rival.
But it was there when Seyboth Wild once again showed his best tennis, he took the fourth and he knew how to take advantage of the emotional impulse to keep the fifth and win the game after 4 hours and 15 minutes. The 23-year-old Brazilian made sure to advance to at least the 140th place in the ATP ranking. His rival in the second round will be the winner of the match between the Argentine Guido Pella and the French Quentin Halys.
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