He Argentine tennis player Francisco Cerúndolo qualified this Sunday for the round of 16 of the Masters 1000 in Romedisputed on brick dust, after beat Frenchman Grégoire Barrere 6-7 (0), 6-2, 6-2 in a third round match.
Cerúndolo, number 31 in the ranking and first national racket, awaits the winner of the match between the Italian Jannik Sinner, eighth seed, and the Russian Alexander Shevchenko -Sebastián Báez’s executioner- to know his rival in the next instance.
The man from Buenos Aires, who had previously eliminated the Chinese Yibing Wu, andHe is the only Argentine in the race after the early eliminations his brother’s Juan Manuel Cerúndolo, Báez, Tomás Etcheverry, Pedro Cachín, Guido Pella and Diego “Peque” Schwartzman.
closing it He reached that instance for the third time in his career in a Masters series tournamentafter the semifinals and the quarterfinals achieved in Miami last year and in the current season.
The Foro Italico tournament, scheduled until next Sunday, It is the last one that the main tennis players of the ATP circuit will play before the start of Roland Garrossecond Grand Slam of the year to be held in Paris between May 28 and June 11.