In the second round he will face the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassimenumber seven in the ranking, who had to battle for three hours and two minutes to advance against the Slovak Alex Molcan and overcome it 3-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 and 6-2.
closing it He is the second Argentine to advance to the second round of the Oceanic Open, joining diego schwartzman (25), who beat the Ukrainian in his debut Oleksii Krutykh (188) by 6-4, 6-7 (6-8 the tie break), 6-3 and 7-6 (7-5), and will play against the American JJ Wolf.
Etcheverry could not follow in the footsteps of Cerúndolo
Earlier, the Argentine Thomas Etcheverry fell to the Italian Jannik Sinner in the second round of the Australian Openwhile the surprise of the day was the defeat of the current champion, the Spanish Rafael Nadalwho played injured against the American Mackenzie McDonald.
After getting his first victory in a grand slams, Etcheverry, 80th in the ATP rankinglost 6-3, 6-2 and 6-2 against Sinner (16), 21 years old)one of the most promising youngsters on the circuit, after one hour and 46 minutes of play.
While, nadalsecond in the world ranking, could do nothing against McDonald (63) after being injured in the second set: he finished the match with a limp, fell 6-4, 6-4 and 7-5 and suffered his earliest elimination in a Grand Slam , since the Australian Open in 2016.
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