Argentine tennis players Sebastián Báez and Diego Schwartzman debuted this Tuesday with victories in the first round at the Wimbledon grass tournamentthe third Grand Slam of the year, while Francisco Cerúndolo played a great match against Spaniard Rafael Nadal but lost in four sets.
The Buenos Aires Báez (number 35 in the ranking) defeated the Japanese Taro Daniel (118) 6-4, 6-4 and 7-5. With a solid and strong game from the base and good definitions to break Daniel’s serve at the right moment, the 21-year-old tennis player born in the Buenos Aires town of San Martín prevailed with some ease against a rival who could not neutralize the game of the Argentine in 2 hours and 21 minutes of the match, on field 11 of the All England. In the next round, Báez will face Belgian David Goffin (58) for the first time on the circuitwho defeated the Moldovan Radu Albot (113) 6-2, 6-2 and 7-6 (7-5).
With this win, at 21 years and 6 months, in his first Wimbledon main draw match, Báez became the youngest Argentine tennis player to achieve his first victory at the English Open since Juan Martín del Potro. (at 18 years and 9 months) in 2007.
For its part, Schwartzman (15) had no major problems to advance to the second round after beating American Stefan Kozlov (107) 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 in 2 hours and 24 minutes of play on pitch 18 of the All England turf. Peque’s next rival will be the British Liam Broady (143), who beat the Slovakian Lukas Klein (243), coming from the classification, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-7 (2) and 6-3.
In center court, Francisco Cerúndolo (41) made a great match against the Spanish Rafa Nadal (4 in the world and top winner of Grand Slam tournaments: 22) in his absolute debut at Wimbledon, although the player from Buenos Aires finally fell 6-4, 6-3, 3-6 and 6-4 in 3 hours and 33 minutes of play. Cerúndolo, 23, failed to take advantage of several sets points in favor to break Nadal (36) in the fourth set and the Mallorcan did not forgive to celebrate the complicated victory over “Fran” as if it were a title.
Later, the Santa Fe Facundo Bagnis (102) fell in the contest premiere against the Austrian Dennis Novak (153) 7-6 (7), 2-6, 6-4 and 6-3after 2 hours and 51 hours of confrontation.
While, The world of tennis is alert for a resurgence of coronavirus for which the Italian Matteo Berrettini had to get off11th in the ranking and finalist in the 2021 edition of Wimbledon, and Croatian Marin Cilicnumber 17 in the world, who was a semifinalist at the last Roland Garros, both infected.