The Argentine tennis player Francisco Cerundolo advanced today to the round of 16 of the ATP 500 Barcelona, who will award the Conde de Godó trophy, after beating the Italian Francesco Pessaro by a comfortable 6-2 and 6-2, while his compatriots diego schwartzman and Pedro Cachin they were eliminated by top ten Italian Jannik Sinner 6-2 and 6-4 and Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4 and 6-2, respectively.
Cerúndolo, ranked 32 in the ATP world ranking, entered the tournament directly in the second round and had no complications to eliminate the Italian Passaro (130) in one hour and eight minutes of play.
The 24-year-old Argentine will play his next match against the top ten Norwegian Casper Ruud (3), who beat the American Ben Shelton (37) 6-2, 7-6 (1).
Cerúndolo beat Ruud last year at the Bastad ATP, and lost at the Miami Masters 1000, also in 2022.
Previously, “Little” Schwartzman (48) had been eliminated after losing to the Italian ascendant Sinner (8) after an hour and 40 minutes of play.
The 30-year-old Argentine had lost the two previous games they had played with the Italian, the final in Antwerp, Belgium, in 2021, and on Wednesday of last week at the Monte Carlo Masters 1000.
The 21-year-old Italian will play his next match in the round of 16 against the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka (36), who beat the Belgian David Goffin (99) 6-1, 7-5.
The contest, which is played on the clay of the Real Club de Tenis de Barcelona, will distribute prizes for a total of 2,872,435 euros and has the defending champion, Carlos Alcaraz (2) as the favorite.
Later, the Cordovan Pedro Cachín (69) was defeated by the Greek Tsisipas (5), after 1 hour and 19 minutes of confrontation.
Throughout its history, the Count of Godó had two Argentine champions: Martín Jaite in 1987 and Gastón Gaudio in 2002.
Source: Ambito
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