The Argentine tennis player Tomas Etcheverry was eliminated in the First Round of the ATP 500 BaselSwitzerland, falling 6-3 and 6-4 against the American Ben Shelton (6th favorite) and, despite the fall, suffered an injustice in the middle of the match with a rude ruling by the chair umpire.
The action that generated the claim of the 25-year-old player from La Plata occurred in the first set, with a score of 3-2 (30-15) in favor of Shelton. The North American (26th in the ATP ranking) returned the ball at the back of the court and it went long. After the kick outside the limits of the playing field, the ball bounced off Etcheverry’s leg.
The umpire gave the point to Shelton, who ended up winning the game to go 4-2 on serve. Etcheverry went directly to complain to the referee about the sanctionbut there was no turning back and the Argentine had to endure anger. “First it touches your leg and then it bounces. There is no way to see the replay so I have to sanction what I saw,” explained the referee during the brief dialogue he had with Tommy.
The 22-year-old American (25th in the world) won the match and showed greater effectiveness with his first serve, winning 73% of the points and also hitting 8 aces on the fast Basel surface. Shelton awaits his next opponent in the round of 16 and will go tomorrow against the winner of the duel between the Frenchman Adrian Mannarino and the Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka.
* The summary of Tomás Etcheverry’s defeat against Ben Shelton in Basel
He Swiss Indoors It also features two other Argentines as protagonists, who will seek to win the First Round against two strong rivals. Sebastian Baez (26th in the ranking) will clash on Wednesday against the Canadian Felix Augier-Alassime (19°) y Francisco Cerúndolo (30th) will be measured this Tuesday against the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (11°).
The top favorite is the Russian Andrey Rublev (7th) who beat the Portuguese in his debut Nuno Borges (33rd) 6-3 and 6-2 and awaits the Croatian in the next instance Marin Cilic or Chilean Alejandro Tabilo. The only meeting so far in the round of 16 in Basel is the one between the Frenchman Ugo Humbert (16th) and the Belgian David Goffin (54th).
In other results of the day, the Swiss Dominic Stricker He beat the Dutch Tallon Griekspoor 6-4 and 6-4, the Canadian Dennis Shapovalov did the same with the Chinese Shang Juncheng (6-1 and 6-4), the Dutch Botic from the Zandschulp He won against the Kazakh Aleksander Bublik 3-6, 6-4 and 4-0 (withdrawal) and the Dane Holger Rune beat the Chilean Nicolás Jarry 6-3 and 7-6.
