Báez, a native of the Buenos Aires city of San Martín and located in 37th place in the ATP world ranking, had to retire in the third set, with the result 2-0 against him, due to muscular discomfort in his twins and after being treated by the doctors at the end of the second race.
Until then the match was even and with an excellent game between both contenders and the first two sets were resolved in favor of the Spanish Alcaraz, fourth player in the world and the greatest promise of world tennis, due to details at the end of them, which were led both 7-5.
The first set lasted 52 minutes and Alcaraz was able to make a difference in the twelfth game, when he broke the Argentine’s serve and won the partial 7-5.
The second set had the same characteristics and the same outcome, since after a couple of breaks on each side, Alcaraz again kept the Buenos Aires player’s serve in the twelfth game and, again, with the set 7-5, after 1 hour and 24 minutes long.
After the end of the second set, Báez requested medical attention and the specialists worked on the area of the Argentine’s calf muscles, he returned to the court, but lasted just two games, when he decided to leave between tears, with the result 0-2 in the set. and after completing 2 hours and 29 minutes a great match between two young “gladiators”.
Now, Báez will carry out the corresponding medical studies to know the degree of the injury, which in principle would be cramps, but it is not ruled out that it is a tear, with which he would miss the Davis Cup finals in Bologna, Italy, where he will be part of the Argentine team that will integrate Zone A of the ecumenical contest together with Italy, Croatia and Sweden, from September 13 to 18.
If Báez cannot be present, his place in the Davis Cup will be occupied by Pedro Cachín (66) from Córdoba.
Alcaraz will face another Argentine in the second round of the New York tournament: Rosario Federico Coria (78), who then beat Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor (46) 7-5, 6-4, 6-3.
Coria dominated the match from the start against an erratic Griekspoor and took the victory with a break per set and after 2 hours and 5 minutes of play.
For his part, the Azuleño Federico Delbonis (134), after having passed through the previous classification of the tournament, fell to the powerful American server John Isner (48) 6-3, 6-1 and 7-5.
Delbonis could do nothing against the effectiveness of Isner and quickly said goodbye to the US Open, after 1 hour and 54 minutes of a disparate confrontation.
On the first day of the US Open played on Monday, the only Argentine who made it through the opening round was the Cordovan Pedro Cachinwhile Francisco Cerúndolo, Tomás Etcheverry, Facundo Bagnis and Nadia Podoroska were eliminated.
Cachín (66), in the best moment of his career at 27 years old and winner this year of four Challengers (in Madrid, Prague, Todi and Santo Domingo), beat Slovenian Aljaz Bedene (347) by 6- 4, 6-3, 5-7, 1-6 and 7-6 (10-6).
The next rival of the tennis player born in Bell Ville will be the American Brandon Holt (303), who gave the big surprise and eliminated his compatriot Taylor Fritz (12).
The US Open this year will distribute a record number of prizes between both ATP and WTA tables with a sum of 60,100,000 dollars.
The champions of the US Open, both in men and women, will receive $2,600,000, a figure higher than that delivered by the other three “majors”: the Australian Open awarded $2,071,064, Roland Garros $2,290,354 and Wimbledon $2,507. .460 US currency.
Source: Ambito
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