diego schwartzman and Francisco Cerundolo were eliminated from Masters 1000 of Monte Carlo, in Monaco, the first tournament of the category of the year in Europe, after losing today in the second round against the Italians Jannik Sinner and Matteo Berrettini, respectively.
The “Little” Schwartzman, ranked 37th in the ATP world ranking, although next week he will fall to at least 48th place because he will lose the 180 points he defended in Monte Carlo, fell against the “top ten” Sinner (8) , when he was clearly surpassed by the Italian 6-0 and 3-1 and he decided to retire due to severe pain in his left shoulder when only 38 minutes of the match had been played.
The 30-year-old Argentinian is signed up to play the traditional Catalan Conde de Godó tournament in Barcelona starting Monday, where he must defend another 180 points because last year he reached the semifinals, although we will have to wait for the next few hours to find out the severity of your shoulder injury.
Schwartzman’s loss was the second in his two matches with Sinner, who had also won the ATP 250 final in Antwerp in Belgium in 2021.
With the defeat of Schwartzman, the only Argentine who continued ahead in the singles table was the porteño Francisco Cerúndolo (33), who also lost later to Italian Matteo Berrettini (22).
Cerúndolo, 24, had a good first set but was then beaten by the Italian, who won 5-7, 7-6 (7-1) and 6-4, after 2 hours and 43 minutes of contention
In other matches of the day the following results were given:
Alexander Zverev (Germany, 16) to Roberto Bautista Agut (Spain, 29) by 6-4 and 6-4; Jan-Lennard Struff (Germany, 100) to Alex De Miñaur (Australia, 19) by 6-3 and 6-2; Nicolás Jarry (Chile, 58) to Alexei Popyrin (Australia, 94) by 3-6, 7-5 and 6-4;
Casper Ruud (Norway, 4) to Botic Van De Zandschulp (Netherlands, 31) by 7-5 and 7-6 (7-1); Lorenzo Musetti (Italy, 21) beat Luca Nardi (Italy, 159) by 6-0 and 6-0 and Jiri Lehecka (Czech Republic, 42) beat Grigor Dimitrov (Bulgaria, 25) by 7-6 (7-4) and 6-4.
The Monte Carlo Open, a traditional event on the circuit on brick dust, will distribute prizes of 6,228,285 euros, has the Serbian Novak Djokovic (1) as the top favorite for the title, while the defending champion is the Greek Stefanos Tsistipas (3). , winner of the last two editions, in 2021 and 2022.
Throughout its history, the contest had three Argentine champions: Guillermo Vilas twice, in the 1976 and 1982 editions, Alberto “Luli” Mancini in 1989 and Guillermo “Mago” Coria in 2004.
Source: Ambito
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