The sporting present of diego schwartzman he fails to straighten up, and his debut at the Argentina Open was disappointing. The porteño could not before the Spanish Bernabe Zapata Miralles and was dismissed in the round of 16 after the 6-1, 6-3 loss.
The Argentine, with this defeat, will go down to the position 38 of the world ranking, and it will be the third in the country next week, behind Francisco Cerúndolo and Sebastián Báez.
“What I aim at this moment is to feel comfortable on the pitch and being able to enjoy the games”, Schwartzman explained in the conference he gave last Tuesday prior to his presentation. What he exhibited before Zapata was that he was unable to accomplish either of the two objectives.
The place was erratic, inaccurate and annoying with himself when he made a mistake. The impotence did not allow him to recover his game, and on the other side he saw a rival who was getting everything that was proposed. The first set was 6-1 with two serve breaks from Zapata, who showed power and winners in equal measure.
The public sought to provoke the Argentine’s reaction at all times, but their own mistakes they attacked any attempt possible. Her annoyed face at each mistake was the clear image that she is not satisfied with what she was offering.
Insecurity took over his tennis, and he only became convinced that the way out it would not be easy to find.
The European, number 74 in the world ranking, was firm, sure and with well-established tactics, quite the opposite of what happened with the loser. The moment of recovery seemed to arrive when broke the serve of the Spanish to get 3-5 in the second. People, at that moment, lit up with “… let’s go Little, let’s go, put h… we won.”
The man born in Valencia He was not intimidated by that situation, and took advantage of his second chance to define the match and close the set 6-3.
The cold that gripped the night in Palermo caused the quick people out, who arrived with the illusion of observing an outstanding match of the local player, and said goodbye with very disappointed by what he had witnessed.
The other Argentine who also lost was Pedro Cachin (6-2, 6-3) against the Italian Lorenzo Musetti, and the Spanish Juan Pablo Varillas eliminated the Austrian 6-4 by double Dominic Thiem. On Friday they play: Etcheverry-Norrie, Varillas-Musetti, Alcaraz-Lajovic and Zapata Miralles-Cerúndolo.