“Little” Schwartzman, ranked 16th in the ATP world ranking, beat Fucsovics (57) in one hour and 51 minutes of play and entered the top 16 of the Monte Carlo Masters 1000, which is played on dust of brick, distributes prizes for 5,415,410 euros, and no longer has his top favorite, the Serbian Novak Djokovic (number 1 in the world), who lost in his debut.
the porteño Schwartzman, 29, will play in the next round with the Italian Lorenzo Musetti (83), who beat Canadian Félix Auger Aliassime (9) 6-2, 7-6 (2). The “Little One”, a finalist this year at the Argentina Open and in Rio de Janeiro, appeared in the Principality last Monday with a tight victory in the initial round over the Russian Karen Khachanov (24) by 7-6 (5), 3-6 and 6-3. He only once faced Musetti, 20, in Acapulco 2021 and the victory went to the young Italian.
For its part, Delbonis (34) could not with the German Alexander Zverev (number 3 in the ATP ranking) and fell in the second round 6-1 and 7-5 in one hour and 26 minutes. The 31-year-old left-hander from Azul, had beaten the Spanish Jaume Munar (105) by 6-4, 3-6 and 6-4 in the initial round.
Zverev was the top contender for the title in Monte Carlo after Djokovic surprisingly lost to Spaniard Alexander Davidovich Fokina (46) 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1 in the second round. In the round of 16, the German top ten will be rivaled by the Spanish Pablo Carreño Busta (19), who beat Kazakh Alexander Bublik (36) 4-6, 7-6 (3), 4-3 and retired.
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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