MADRID, 11 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Spanish tennis players Pablo Andújar, Jaume Munar and Pedro Martínez fell this Thursday in the second round of the ATP tournament in Buenos Aires, with defeats against the Argentines Federico Delbonis (6-4, 6-4) and Diego Schwartzmann (7-6 (2) , 7-6(4), and Italian Fabio Fognini (6-4, 7-6(5)), respectively.
Andújar returned to action from the Australian Open and stood up to one of the local favorites. Delbonis, who signed the emotional elimination of Juan Martín del Potro, beat Andújar in his second match, who started by losing his serve. With that income, the sixth-seeded team signed up for the sleeve, with work still ahead.
The man from Cuenca stood up in an even second act, but a ‘break’ in the ninth game left him on the ropes. Delbonis will now face a Fognini executioner of another Spaniard. As happened to him last week in Córdoba, Pedro Martínez gave way again in his second match on Argentine soil in Buenos Aires.
Fognini, seeded fourth, knew how to fight and come back in both sets, cutting short the good options that the Spaniard had to reach the quarterfinals. The Valencian began the match by breaking his rival’s serve and took the lead until he let Fognini’s sleeve slip in four straight games. The Italian also started down in the second set but again pulled back. Martínez endured the exchange until a disputed ‘tie-break’.
Finally, Jaume Munar was also unable to surprise one of the favourites, Argentine Diego Schwartzmann, second seeded, although he made him work on the court and only gave in after losing two tiebreaks.
The Spaniard was close to two and a half hours against the local tennis player, whom he was close to leading to a third and final set when he broke his service in the second and went 6-5. However, the ‘Peque’ returned the break to force the ‘sudden death’ and end his career there.
