Báez, born in the Buenos Aires town of San Martín and ranked 38th in the ATP world ranking, beat Otte (60) after 1 hour and 58 minutes of play.
The Buenos Aires tennis player will play his next match against the British Cameron Norrie (11), who later beat the Argentine Francisco Cerundolo (44) by 6-4 and 6-4, after 1 hour and 41 minutes of play.
Báez, 21 years old and champion this year in Estoril, had defeated fellow Argentine Tomás Martín Etcheverry (90) 6-2, 6-1 yesterday in the initial round.
Coria, for his part, born in Rosario and ranked 59th in the world ranking, defeated Altmaier (54) in 2 hours and 18 minutes, and will play his next match against the Spanish Pablo Carreño Busta (17).
The Lyon ATP, one of the events prior to Roland Garros, the second Grand Slam of the year to be played from Sunday in Paris, will distribute prizes of 597,900 euros and celebrates its fifth edition.
The previous champions were the French Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (2017) and Benoit Paire (2019), the Austrian Dominic Thiem (2018) and the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (2021).
Bagnis eliminated in Geneva
Facundo Bagnis was eliminated from the ATP 250 Geneva, in Switzerland, losing today in the opening round to Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-4 and withdrawing.
Bagnis, born in Armstrong, Santa Fe, and ranked 98th in the ATP world ranking, was losing to Basilashvili (25) in 47 minutes of play when he began to feel pain in his left calf and decided to leave the match.
The 32-year-old from Santa Fe preferred not to aggravate the annoyance because next Sunday Roland Garros will begin to be played, the second Grand Slam tournament on the tennis calendar.
Another Argentine, the azuleño Frederic Delbonis (62), settled in the round of 16 yesterday after beating Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis (101) 6-4, 6-4, thus putting an end to an adverse streak of three consecutive losses in the initial rounds of Barcelona, Madrid and Rome.
Delbonis will play his next match tomorrow against the winner of the cross between the Italian Fabio Fognini (52) and the Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis (85).
The ATP 250 in Geneva is played on a clay surface, will distribute prizes of 597,900 euros and had Russian Daniil Medvedev (2) as the top favorite for the title, who fell in his debut against Frenchman Richard Gasquet (75) by 6- 2 and 7-6 (5).
Source: Ambito
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