The Argentine tennis player Tomas Etcheverry He played a great game against the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov (8th), but ended up falling 6-7 (9), 6-3 and 7-5 in the second round of the Masters 1000 of Paris.
The match started favorably for Etcheverry, who despite not taking advantage of the break opportunities that were presented to him, was able to take the first set after winning 11-9 in a tremendous tie-break.
In the second set, Dimitrov reacted, giving Etcheverry no opportunities with his service and breaking the player from La Plata twice to get a comfortable 6-3 and take the match to the final set.
In the last set Dimitrov continued to be intractable with his serve (he lost only three points), but Etcheverry was very brave in his service turns to reach 5-5.
Finally, the victory was in the hands of Dimitrov after 2 hours and 45 minutes of play, after achieving the decisive break in the twelfth game to win 7-5.
This close victory allowed Dimitrov to advance to the round of 16, where he will face Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech.
The Bulgarian has an interesting opportunity to round off a good performance in Paris, where the last Masters 1000 of the season is being held, since the Russian Daniil Medvedev, who occupies fifth place in the ranking and had a chance of being his rival in an eventual quarterfinals In the final, he lost to the Australian Alexei Popyrin.
This way, The only Argentine in the race in this tournament is Francisco Cerúndolowho this Tuesday gave the surprise of the day and eliminated the Russian and sixth seed, Andrey Rublev.
In the round of 16 he will face the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (10th) this Thursday, whom he was very close to beating last week in the first round of the ATP 500 in Basel.
The German Alexander Zverev (3rd) defeated the Dutch Tallon Griekspoor (39th) 7-6 and 6-3. In this way, he will face the Frenchman Arthur Fils (20th) in the next round of the competition.
With the victory, Zverev was part of the round of 16 of all the Masters of the season – Shanghai, Cincinnati, Canada, Rome, Monte Carlo, Miami and Indian Wells. The last to achieve it had been Rafael Nadal in 2017.
Finally, the American Taylor Fritz (5th) could not beat the British Jack Draper (15th), who gave the surprise and beat him 7-6 (6), 4-6 and 6-4.
In this way, the Briton will go in search of winning his first ATP 1000 in his career. Earlier this year, he won the Boss Open (ATP 250) on June 16 and the Erste Bank Open (ATP 500) last Sunday. His next rival will be the Australian Alex de Minaur (10th).
Source: Ambito
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