Argentine Diego Schwartzman was eliminated this Thursday in the round of 16 of the Toronto Masters 1000 tennis, in Canada. when falling before the Spanish Roberto Bautista Agut by 6-3, 3-6 and 7-5.
Peque, ranked 14th in the ATP world ranking, entered the contest as the eighth seed and squandered the chance to go to the quarterfinals by losing against the Spanish Bautista Agut (17), after 2 hours and 47 minutes of confrontation.
The 28-year-old Argentine had three match points to stay with the match in the third set when he served 5-4, but failed in the attempt and Bautista Agut, a specialist in fast surface, broke, seized after his service in the eleventh game and returned to stay with the serve of “Peque” in the twelfth game, to close the decisive part 7-5.
With the victory, Bautista Agut unpaired the history between the two, since the Spanish had won in Monte Carlo 2017, and the Argentine had won the 2019 edition of the Canadian Masters 1000.
The Toronto Masters 1000, which is played on a fast surface and will distribute prizes for $ 3,487,915, has as the top favorite the Russian Daniil Medvedev (2), who settled in the round of 16 by beating the Kazakh Alexander Bublik (39) and later it was measured with the Australian James Duckworth (85).
The Canadian Masters 1000, which year after year alternates its headquarters between Montreal and Toronto, had two Argentine champions throughout its history: Guillermo Vilas in 1974 and 1976, and Guillermo Cañas in 2002.
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