While in Brazil continues the South American Tour with the Challenger 100 in Curitibain Europa The second consecutive week of ATP tournaments on indoor cement courts. After passing through Antwerp, Stockholm and the exotic competition that it hosted Almaty, Kazakhstanit is time for two traditional circuit competitions: Basel and Vienna.
The Swiss city brought no luck to our representatives from the opening day. On Saturday came the first defeat with Facundo Díaz Acosta in the initial round of qualifying. The player of Commerce Clublast champion of the EIB+ Argentina Open Last February, he couldn’t beat the Indian Sumit Nagal by 7-5, 6-7(3) and 6-7(5), in a battle that lasted almost four hours. Later, the draw for the main draw was not at all beneficial for the albiceleste protagonists.
Tomás Etcheverry and Francisco Cerúndolowho made their premieres this Tuesday, were paired with Ben Shelton and Stefanos Tsitsipas23rd and 11th in the international ranking, respectively, and whose formation was on the surface of the contest. During the morning of our country, The player from La Plata lost to the American 3-6 and 4-6. The duel, regardless of the result, had a controversy that spread around the world and blew up social networks.
Tommy served 2-3 (15-30) in the first set, when his opponent hit a drive off the court. The umpire, Arnaud Eastinterpreted that the ball hit the South American and validated the point for the native of Atlanta. After that, The Argentine suffered a break and was unable to recover. Although he tried to debate with the highest authority to reverse his decision, he did not do so and the match continued normally. After the defeat, Etcheverry left a clear message in the stories of his official Instagram account: “Incredible that they still don’t have a review, @atptour. These things can’t keep happening.”.
Later, it was Cerúndolo’s turn against the Greek. The oldest of the brothers lost by a tight 6-3, 6-7(3) and 7-6(4)in a match that really had everything. In the second set, Fran produced a recovery that made people excited. He raised three break points at 0-2, served 2-4 (15-40) and 1-3 in the tiebreaker. After that, he kept his tennis on the rise and in the final he had chances. He had a break point at 4-4, served 6-5 to seal the victory and even 4-2 in the tie-break. In any case, the Greek pulled out all the stops and won six points in a row to advance to the second round.
Meanwhile, from Austria, there was no beneficial news for national tennis either. Mariano Navone and Miomir Kecmanovic were assigned to open a day full of emotion in the Vienna City Halldedicated to the premises Dominic Thiem. The former number three in the ranking and champion of Grand Slam in it US Open 2020put an end to his career after the defeat in the first round against the Geselino Luciano Darderiwho competes under the Italian flag.
The revelation of our team in the current season fell to the Serbian by 2-6 and 4-6. It should be noted that last week, in Belgiumthat of July 9 He played his first experience on this soil and did so with victory: he went 6-3, 4-6 and 7-6(6) over the Brazilian Thiago Monteiroafter saving from match points.
This Wednesday, starting at 7, there will be Argentine action in both cities of the old continent and you can follow Disney Plus and Tennis TVthe official streaming platform of the ATP. In Vienna, it will be the turn of Máximo González and Andrés Molteni. The recent finalists of the Masters 1000 in Shanghai They will seek to maintain the positive feelings facing the Davis Cup Final 8 and they will clash with the British Lloyd Glasspool y Julian Cash. Meanwhile, starting at 9, Sebastian Baezthe last singles player standing, will face the Canadian Happy Auger-Also (19) in Basel.
