Diego Schwartzman seeks to leave the Argentine flag high at Roland Garros after being the only survivor of the albiceleste delegation in French territory. This time he got a convincing 6-3, 6-1, 6-2 win against Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov (21 of the plant) to get into the top 16 of the men’s draw of the Parisian Grand Slam.
The littlewho was 3 to 1 down in the record against the European (his only victory had been in the Istanbul final, in 2016 -his first ATP title-), now he awaits the winner of the crossover that will later star the Slovenian Aljaz Bedene and the Serbian Novak Djokoviccurrent defender of the main brick dust trophy.
To reach this instance, Schwartzman won 6-1, 1-6, 6-4, 6-2 against the Russian Andrei Kuznetsov (coming from qualy) and made an epic comeback 2-6, 6-7, 6 -2, 6-2 and 6-2 to beat the Spanish Jaume Antoni Munar. His opponent, on the other hand, had eliminated the American Marcos Giron (6-1, 6-1 and 6-1) and the Croatian Borna Coric (6-0, 6-4 and 6-3).
Diego, racket number 16 in the ATP ranking, is usually the protagonist at the French Open, since in three of the last four editions he has at least reached the quarterfinals. Her best record was in 2020, when she reached the semifinals (she succumbed to the Spanish Rafael Nadal, her executioner the following season).
“Thank you all for generating this incredible atmosphere in this stadium. We recently played with Grigor and he dominated me, today things changed, I improved a lot. Yesterday I thought a lot about this match, the conditions helped me, the court was slower, but I was very focused. At the beginning of the third, things were giving him, but I made an effort and it gave me. I had a great game”, said the tennis player after two hours and 15 minutes of the game. And then he added: “I love playing in Paris, it is the most beautiful city of all. It always makes me happy to come back, I’ve reached the semi-finals here, where I lost to Rafa Nadal, I don’t know how many times I’ve lost to Rafa already! I am very happy, enjoying every moment, every victory, you can see me, it is remarkable that I am happy in Paris”.
“Now it’s Djokovic or Bedene, but if it’s Nole, to repeat what I did a few years ago against him, I’ll watch that match, I’ll repeat everything I did well and then I’ll fight,” he concluded.
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