Báez, 21, number 66 on the ATP ranking, will be the third Argentine tennis player in this edition of the traditional tournament after Diego Schwartzman (16th) and Federico Delbonis (35th)who were classified directly by ranking.
The Masters 1000 of the Principality has as its top favorite the number 1 in the world, the Serbian Novak Djokovic, who will play his second competition of the year in a problematic season due to his decision not to apply the vaccine against Covid-19.
Schwartzman, finalist this year at the Argentina Open and at the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro, A complicated rival like the Russian Karen Khachanov (24) will make his debut, whom he beat twice and lost two others in the history.
The “Little One” beat him at the 2017 Miami Masters 1000 and in Vienna 2019, while the Moscow tennis player beat him at the 2017 Cincinnati Masters 1000 and at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
In the case of advancing to the second round, Schwartzman, 29,he will meet the South African Lloyd Harris (40) or the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics (57).
Delbonis (35), without good results in 2022 except for his access to the semifinals of the Argentina Open, will start against a tennis player who emerged from the classification and if he passes him it will be difficult because he will go against the German Alexander Zverev (2), second favorite for the title .
The Monte Carlo Masters 1000 had three Argentine champions in its history: Guillermo Vilas in 1976 and 1982; Alberto “Luli” Mancini in 1989 and Guillermo “Mago” Coria in 2004.
Source: Ambito
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