Diego Schwartzman defeated Tomas Machac 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 after 2h16m of play in the second point of the Davis Cup series. In this way, Argentina beats the Czech Republic 2-0.
Diego Schwartzman had a good start to the season ATP Cuprepresenting the Team Argentina, achieving a very high level of tennis and adding important victories. The Argentine claimed a huge victory over the Greek Tsitsipas. On Australian Opensaved an interesting win in the first round over Krajinovicalthough in his second presentation -with some inconvenience- he fell on a bad day before O’Connell. On his return to brick dust, in the Córdoba Open reached the semi-finals, where he lost heavily to Prince. However, the number 14 ATP never settles; on Argentina Open he had a flawless week to reach the final, although the title went to Ruud. Finally, in Rio de Janeiro displayed good tennis and reached the final, although Alcaraz he forbade the title.
Thomas Macac had an unbeatable start to 2022, as he became champion of the Traralgon Challenger. After the trophy, he presented himself to dispute the classification in Melbourne and beat Ugo Carabelli, Bhambri and De Jong to get into the main draw. Next, in Australian Open, defeated in the first round JM Cerúndolo in a match, and Cressy He eliminated it in the second round. Subsequently, he had a fleeting passage through the Cherbourg Challenger, given that Kukushkin he beat him first. However, the Czech completed two very good weeks before arriving in Argentina: he reached the round of 16 of the Marseille ATP and the quarterfinals of the Forlí Challenger 5.
Schwartzman took Top 15 tag against Machac
In the first set, Thomas Macac He came out very confident with his tennis and his tactics to hurt his rival, attacking at key moments and holding his serve well. Thus, the Czech managed to respond with the return to break serve twice and win 4-1. Although Diego Schwartzman tried to react by recovering a break, the European was very sure and took it for 6-2 in 35 minutes.
Following the same line, the Czech broke at the beginning of the second set to go 2-0 and begin to direct his triumph. However, El Peque resurfaced, he began to hit the ball later, he got on the serve line, he imposed his conditions and with a lot of clearance. stringed together six consecutive games to bind 6-2 in 42 minutes.
In the deciding set, Schwartzman continued to hurt a stunned Machac to take a 3-0 lead and, though he struggled to close it out, settled into the game nicely to give his nation the second point for 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 in 2h16m of play.
