The Buenos Aires Baez, ranked 32nd in the ATP world rankings, he was surpassed by the talented and eccentric Australian Kyrgios (37), finalist this year at Wimbledon and champion this weekend at the ATP 500 in Washington, after 1 hour and 26 minutes of play.
The only previous precedent between the two favored Kyrgios, who had prevailed this year in the initial round of the Masters 1000 in Indian Wells, in the United States, for which the oceanic player extended the record against the Argentine to two games apart.
Kyrgios will play in the next round against the number 1 in the world, the Russian Daniel Medvedev (1), champion this weekend at the Mexican ATP in Los Cabos, who will debut directly in the second round.
Later, the “Little” Schwartzmann, located in the 15th place of the ecumenical tennis ranking, he faced the Spanish Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (36), a rival he beat the three times they met: Australian Open, ATP 250 in Cologne and Masters 1000 in Paris, all in 2020.
In the event of winning, the 29-year-old Argentine will meet the Belgian in the second round. David Goffin (61) or Spanish Albert Ramos (43), champion this year at the ATP in Córdoba.
The Montreal Masters 1000 is played on a fast surface and awards prizes of $6,573,000.
The event, which alternates year after year between Montreal and Toronto, has had two Argentine champions since it began to be played in 1968.
Guillermo Vilas raised the trophy in the 1974 and 1976 editions; while Guillermo Cañas won the 2002 contest.
Source: Ambito
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