US Open: Four Argentines in search of the third round

Diego schwartzman will play this Wednesday against South African Kevin Anderson, while Guido pella will face the American Frances Tiafoe, while Facundo Bagnis and Marco Trungelliti will face each other, which guarantees the presence of an Argentine tennis player in the third round of the US Open, fourth and last Grand Slam of the year.

The “Peque” Schwartzman (14 in the ATP ranking), he dodged the opening round with a win over Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis (96) in straight sets and will return to appear at 20 (Argentina time) against South African punch Anderson (77), in a game scheduled on the Louis Armstrong court, the second largest at the Billie Jean King National Tennis complex, in the Queen’s neighborhood of New York. In the case of advancing to the third round, the Argentine will play in that instance against the local Brandon Nakashima (84) or the Slovak Alex Molcan (138).

Schwartzman, the number one of Argentina’s Davis Cup team that will host Belarus on September 18 and 19 in Buenos Aires, has as his best record at the US Open his access to quarter-finals in the 2017 and 2019 editions, while in 2020 it suffered a premature elimination in the initial round.

The Bahiense Pella (85), for his part, also a member of the Argentine team of Davis cup, after beating Serbian Filip Krajinovic (38) in the opening round, will be presented no earlier than 16 and also on the court Louis Armstrong against the local Tiafoe (50). In the case of advancing to the third round, Pella will meet the Spanish Pedro Martínez (75) or the Russian “top ten” Andrey Rublev (7).

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While, on court number 15 and from 12 o’clock there will be a crossing of Argentines between the Santa Fe Bagnis and the Santiago Trungelliti, who are facing the great possibility of advancing for the first time in their careers to the third round of a Grand Slam.

In the case of Bagnis (80), beat Japanese Taro Daniel (109) in the initial round, while Trungelliti (198), who entered the main draw after having crossed the classification and scored a very good win against the Spanish Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (33). The winner of the crossing will play in the third round with the Dutch Botic Van de Zandschulp (117) or the Norwegian Casper Ruud (11), champion of the Argentina Open in 2020 and winner of four titles this year: Geneva, Bastad, Gstaad and Kitzbuhel.

The US Open will distribute a record amount of $ 57,500,000 Between both teams and the other three Argentines who competed, they were eliminated in the initial round: Federico Coria (62), Federico Delbonis (47) and Nadia Podoroska (37).

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