This Tuesday the Argentines Guido Pella, Federico Coria and Federico Delbonis will debut.
The youngest of the brothers closing it was left with the victory, due to the withdrawal of Andujar, who withdrew from the game as a result of an injury to his right shoulder.
In what was definitely the only complete set of the match, closing it, winner of the tournament in 2021, showed an irregular gait, lost his serve in the third game, with flaws in his serve (three double faults).
Then, the man born in Buenos Aires recovered in the sixth game to equalize the score at 3-3, basing his game on solidity from the bottom of the court, and testing on several occasions “drop shots” that required the veteran Iberian tennis player, from 37 years.
And although he quickly gave up his serve again in the following game, the Argentine stringed together three games in a row to win that first set 6-4, while the physical decline of his team began to be felt. Andujar, suffering from the shoulder injury.
The Spaniard made the attempt at the start of the second set, but after losing the first game and without beginning to recover from his ailment, he decided to leave the tournament and give the chance to closing it to get into the next instance.
At the close of the first day, the Italian (born in Villa Gesell, adopted European citizenship during the pandemic) faced each other. Luciano Darderi (140) and French Hugo Gaston (101).
At the start of the tournament, early in the exhausting and hot siesta of Cordoba, in a duel of Spaniards he prevailed Bernabe Zapata Miralles (76) before Roberto Carballes Baena (77) by 6-7; 6-3 and 7-5, in a duel that lasted 3 hours and 26 minutes.
There was also a victory for the Serbian dusan lajovic (89) over the Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas (98), by 7-6 and 6-3, in a match that lasted 2 hours and 2 minutes.
Thus, the Balkan player will meet in the second round with the defending champion Albert Ramos Viñolas, a Spaniard who ranks 54th. place in the world ranking and is the third preclassified in this edition of the contest.
In the day of tomorrow three Argentines will go on stage. Federico Coria (67) from Rosario will open the action on the central court against Brazilian Thiago Monteiro (78), then Spanish Pedro Martínez (72) will face Chilean Cristian Garín (103).
While on field 1, the Colombian Daniel Galán (83) will face the Chilean Tomás Barrios Vera (212), in the evening.
In the last turns of the central court, the azuleño Frederick Delbonis (131), who came from the qualy, will face the Chilean Alejandro Tabilo (146), and the Bahian will close the day Guido Pella (1018), invited, against the Italian Andrea Vavassori (221), who also entered the main draw from qualifying over the weekend.
Schwarztmann, The first seed, he stated this afternoon that he will seek this week to reconnect with “the good feelings on the field.”
The ?Little? is in the 28th place in the ATP ranking and is not going through its best stage in recent years. For this reason, in an attempt to resume the good path, he warned at a press conference that in the Cordovan open he will seek to string together “a string” of victories as he had in the tournament in past editions, reaching a final and another semifinal.
“I want to regain confidence, I have to go little by little to feel better and better. The tennis sensations are good, beyond the physical, hopefully I can take it to the court,” he added.
Winner of four titles in his career (Istanbul 2016, Rio de Janeiro 2018, Los Cabos 2020 and Buenos Aires 2021), Schwartzman will play the entire clay tour with the intention of defending the 540 points accumulated during the last season.
“You have to put things in proportion, last year I lost the finals of the Argentina Open and the Rio Open against Casper Rudd and Carlos Alcaraz, who were number two and number one in the ranking, respectively. That’s why I think it was a great start. I sign to have those results this year.”stressed the best Argentine on the circuit.
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