2023-05-16 17:16:51
Argentine tennis player Francisco Cerúndolo qualified this Tuesday to the quarterfinals of the Masters 1000 in Rome, played on brick dust, by defeating the Italian Jannik Sinner by 6/7, 6/2 and 6/2 in a match corresponding to the round of 16 of the contest that It takes place in the Foro Italico.
Cerúndolo, number 31 in the ranking and first national racket, after eliminating Sinner (8) will next face the Norwegian Casper Ruud (4), who left Laslo Djere (62) on the road by 6/3, 2/1 and withdraw.
The man from Buenos Aires, who had previously eliminated the Chinese Yibing Wu, is the only Argentine in the race after the early eliminations of his brother Juan Manuel Cerúndolo, Báez, Tomás Etcheverry, Pedro Cachín, Guido Pella and Diego “Peque” Schwartzman.
Cerúndolo reached that stage for the third time in his career in a Masters series tournament, after the semifinals and quarterfinals achieved in Miami last year and in the current season.
The Foro Italico tournament, scheduled until next Sunday, is the last to be played by the main tennis players of the ATP circuit before the start of Roland Garros, the second Grand Slam of the year to be held in Paris between May 28 and June 11.
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