Federico Coria (No. 65 in the world), one of the six Argentines present at the Indian Wells Masters 1000, was eliminated in the second round of the tournament. In that phase, He met the British Daniel Evans (29th), a tennis player who, based on offensive and precise tennis, dispatched him without problems.
On field five of the American complex and in one hour and seven minutes of action, the Argentine who had just defeated Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas in his debut on a windy day, was unable to accommodate the variations of his rival, whom he faced for the first once in his career. The Briton combined powerful, flat shots with excellent slices and took the albiceleste off the axis.
With partials of 6-2 and 6-0, the native of Birmingham (England) shone and got into the third round, where he waits for nothing less than the winner of the cross between the Spanish Rafael Nadal and the local Sebastián Korda. For her part, Coria will have to leave behind this hard defeat to focus fully on the Phoenix Challenger and then on the Masters 1000 de Miamiwhich begins on March 21.
It is worth mentioning that, like Rosario, Sebastián Báez (with Nick Kyrgios) and Juan Manuel Cerúndolo (Jack Sock) have already been eliminatedboth in the first instance.
