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During the second quarter, erratic, Federico Coria he spoke to himself:I don’t put two in a row. Two in a row on the field! Amazing. It’s been four… seven games that I can’t play well.” I was 0-3 and 40-30, waiting for the service of Daniel Evansa British that is certainly not a wonder.
Coria is one of the players who grew the most in recent years. El Mago’s brother, Guillermo, the captain of the Davis Cup team, is even a member of the Argentine team. He is in position 65 in the ranking, at 30 years old. However, in the Masters 1000 de Indian Wells lay stretched out: fell in front of Evans (29º) by 6-2 and 6-0 in one hour and seven minutes, for the second stage.
Compact of Federico Coria vs. Dan Evans
On the other hand, the Spanish Rafael Nadal staged another spectacular comeback on Saturday and beat the young American in a dramatic set tiebreak Sebastian Korda. Nadal, the owner of the most Grand Slam tournaments (21) in history, raised a 2-5 deficit –and a disadvantage of two service breaks– in the final set to win 6-2, 1-6 and 7-6 ( 7-3), in two and a half hours.
Nadal Compact vs. korda
The Spaniard, 35 years old, still unbeaten in 2022, now after 16 games, and the series includes a memorable triumph at the Australian Open. But at the same time, he dropped out of the Miami Masters 1000, to prepare intensively for the clay season, in which he will try to regain the Roland Garros crown.
Meanwhile, now without Coria, Argentina has two representatives left in the singles table until this Saturday night. Facundo Bagnis defeated the Swiss Henrik Laaksonen on Friday 6-3 and 7-6 (7-4) and in the next instance he will play the South African Lloyd Harris (32), who entered directly into the second round of the tournament that takes place in hard courts and will award $17,227,023.
This was the second victory in the Masters 1000 category by the 32-year-old from Rosario, who has been achieving good performances at the beginning of 2022: he beat the Scotsman Andy Murray in Melbourne, he took Chilean Cristian Garín to a fifth set in the first stage of the Australian Open and reached the quarterfinals in Santiago, where he lost to the Spanish Albert Ramos Viñolas.
Another Argentine Federico Delbonis (34th in the world) will play at dawn with the Australian Nick Kyrgios (132nd), who eliminated Sebastian Baez by 6-4 and 6-0. AND Diego Schwartzman will debut this Sunday against the Finn Emil Rose Rose.
Compact of the triumph of Zeballos and Granollers over Mahut and Martin
In doubles, the man from Mar del Plata Horace Zeballos continues on a positive streak. He returned to the ATP circuit with his adventure partner, the Spanish Marcel Granollersand together they faced a complex: that of the experienced French Fabrice Martin and Nicholas Mahutof the best doubles players on the planet. Unleashed, aggressive, Zeballos led the triumph by 6-4 and 6-4.
Meanwhile, in his first match as number one in world tennisthe Russian Daniil Medvedev got rid of the czech Thomas Macac in 71 minutes. At his debut in Indian Wells, Medvedev beat the 158th ranked ATP player by 6-3 and 6-2 on the central court of the Californian desert, where he had a great reception by the American public.
”Thank you very much for the applause”, thanked the Moscow tennis player. The few hundred fans present cheered him on from his entrance to the main stadium, where The Ukrainian flag flies next to the United States. Medvedev, who has received some criticism for not having clearly and explicitly condemned Russia’s military offensive against Ukraine, is trying to overcome the pressure of being No. 1, a distinction he snatched from Novak Djokovic two weeks ago.
Like his compatriots and the Belarusians, Medevedev must compete without the flag and without national symbols of his country, following a measure adopted by the ATP and WTA circuits after the invasion of Ukraine.
