Diego Schwartzman still hasn’t found his way, yesterday he suffered another tough defeat when he lost to the Serbian Dusan Lajovic in two sets, which knocked him out in the initial round of the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, where he was a finalist in the last edition. The other one who lost was Tomás Etcheverry. Francisco Cerúndolo and Sebastián Báez won.
El Peque, who is 38th in the ATP ranking, lost on the Guga Kuerten center court against the Serbian Lajovic, by 6-1 and 6-4. deepening the bad moment of him, since he comes from losing in his presentations in the contests of Córdoba and Buenos Aires, for which he added his fifth defeat of the year.
Another of the Argentines who said goodbye to the tournament early was Etcheverry, who had played at a good level in the ATP 250 in Argentina, but could not repeat in Rio. He lost to the Spanish Albert Ramos Viñolas, 5-7, 6-4 and 6-4.
Negro Báez, champion of the ATP 250 from Córdoba, had no problem beating the Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci, who played the last game of his sports campaign in Brazil, 6-3, 6-2. Today he will face the Peruvian Juan P. Varillas.
The other Argentine who achieved a victory in his debut in Rio de Janeiro was Francisco Cerúndolo, who beat the Spanish Roberto Carballes Baena 4-6, 6-3 and 6-3. He will face the Spanish Bernabé Zapata Miralles in the next round. .
In one of the matches that will be played today for a new round of the Brazilian tournament, the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz will seek to take another step in the defense of the title that he achieved in the last edition against the Italian Fabio Fognini.
In the doubles contest there will be an Argentine presence, because Peque Schwartzman and Etcheverry will face the Colombian Juan P. Cabal and the Brazilian Marcelo Merlo, and Máximo González and Andrés Molteni will face the couple made up of the Italian Andrea Pellegrino and the Serbian Nikola Cacic.
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