In France, Diego Schwartzman could not this Friday with the greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, who demolished it in three sets 6-2, 6-2 and 6-3, and eliminated him from the Roland Garros Open in the third round.
In court Suzanne Lenglen, the porteño tennis player located 95 of the ATP ranking succumbed to the native of Athens under the brick dust of the traditional Parisian tennis complex.
“Little” Schwartzman, who committed six double faults and only won 58 per cent of his first serve points, could not before the power of Tsitsipaswho now lead the series against each other 5-2.
The next opponent of player Greek for the round of 16 will be the Austrian Sebastian Ofner (118)who defeated the Italian Fabio Fognini (130) 5-7, 6-3, 7-5, 1-6 and 6-4.
“Nole” went to the second round
While, world number 3, Serbian Novak Djokovic, beat in straight sets by 7-6, 7-6 and 6-2 to the Spanish Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (29) to access the round of 16.
The tennis player who has won 22 titles in Grand Slam tournaments suffered some shocks in the first segments, but then solidly resolved the commitment. So, Djokovic will meet in the next instance with the Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas (94)who beat the Polish Hubert Hurkacz (14) 3-6, 6-3, 7-6, 4-6 and 6-2.
In other results, the Italian Lorenzo Musetti (18) beat the Englishman Cameron Norrie (13) 6-1, 6-2 and 6-4 and the Russian Karen Khachanov (11) beat the Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis (108), with partial of 6-4, 6-1, 3-6 and 7-6.
Likewise, the also Italian Lorenzo Sonego (48) achieved a good victory over the Russian Andrey Rublev (7) by 5-7, 0-6, 6-3, 7-6 and 6-3.
Three Argentines who are still in Paris
The other Argentines still in the race will play this Saturday their respective third-round matches in the Parisian contest in the Bois de Boulogne neighborhood, with prizes of $43,900,000, between the male and female teams.
the porteño Francisco Cerúndolo (23) will run into the american favorite Taylor Fritz (8).
the platense Tomás Etcheverry (49), for his part, will face the Croatian Borna Coric (16)who has already eliminated two compatriots: Federico Coria (96) from Rosario and Pedro Cachín (64) from Cordoba.
Finallythe bragadian Genaro Olivieri (231)who comes from the classification, He will have a very difficult match against the Danish Holger Rune (6).