Facundo Bagnis beat Henrik Laaksonen in Indian Wells and Andy Murray reached 700 wins

Argentine tennis player Facundo Bagnis (82nd), advanced to the second round of the Indian Wells Masters 1000, in California, after beating the Swiss last night Henrik Laaksonen (87th) 6-3 and 7-6 (4), in a duel that lasted one hour and 32 minutes. In this way he achieved, five years later, another victory in an ATP Masters 1000. Now, Rosario will play against Lloyd Harris (32)who entered the second round of the tournament with $17,227,023 in prize money.

Bagnis, 32, started the year with more than acceptable results, after beat Britain’s Andy Murray at the Melbourne ATPfell in the first round of the Australian Open in a great five-set match with Chilean Cristian Garin and regained his level in Santiago, reaching the quarterfinals after losing to Spaniard Albert Ramos Viñolas.

Bagnis started the first set focused. With the strategy of opening with his forehand and using a slice to accommodate himself, managed to break Laaksonen in the fourth game, who never lowered his arms and remained expectant, although with no chance of overcoming the Argentine, who closed the first set 6-3 in just over half an hour. During the second set, the Swiss had more opportunities, playing a little looser and came to win 3-0, although Bagnis recovered the break and matched him in numbers. Finally, in the tie break the Swiss started up 2-1 but The Argentine showed his best version and ended up taking the victory to go on to the next stage.

“I like this place, I have good memories and now too, I’ve been feeling good and I needed a first push like this. I am very happy to be able to win. I was surprised how Laaksonen played at such a high level. There are times that you have to endure and luckily I was able to come back and close it “ Bagnis explained.

Now, the tennis player will have to face the South African Lloyd Harris: “I expect a very difficult game with a dynamic similar to today. He hurts with his shots and he had a very good 2021. I have to play well, but I know I’m ready”, reflected the tennis player.

Murray’s 700 Wins

For his part, the former number 1 in the world, Andy Murraydefeated the Japanese Taro Daniel in the first round by 1-6, 6-2 and 6-4 and celebrated his triumph number 700 in the ATP circuita mark surpassed only by Roger Federer (1,251), Rafael Nadal (1,043) and Novak Djokovic (991) among active players.

The Briton, who will face the Kazakh in the second round Alexander Bublik, Number 33 in the world ranking, he thus claimed revenge against Daniel for the elimination in January at the Australian Open, and advanced to the next phase of the only hard-court Masters 1000 that is missing from his record.

“Reaching that number (700 wins) is really a good achievement,” he said at the press conference. “I wouldn’t say that during my career I have necessarily focused on the number of wins, statistics or things like that. However, as you get older and towards the end of your career, there are certain milestones that would be a good thing to achieve,” he admitted.

“It’s not easy to get there (at 700 wins). They told me that I reached 600 in Cincinnati in 2016. Five and a half years to get the last hundred so it took me a while, “he said.

For his part, the Argentine Diego Schwartzman (14) will debut this Sunday in the second round against Finn Emil Ruusuvori (75), who beat German Philipp Kohlschreiber (136) 6-3, 6-3. In addition, Federico Delbonis (34) will also have his debut tomorrow in the contest against Australian Nick Kyrgios (132), who eliminated Argentine Sebastián Báez (60) 6-4, 6-0 in the opening round.

the russian Daniil Medvedev, number one in the world, will debut against the Czech Tomas Machac (158), while the Spanish Rafael Nadal (4) will do it against the American Sebastian Korda (38).