The 33-year-old from Bahia, who yesterday in his debut had beaten Croatian Borna Coric (14), one of the best rackets in the world, 6-3, 7-5, 4-6, 3-6 and 6- 1, surpassed the first two phases of Wimbledon for the third time in his career, as happened in 2018 and 2019, the year in which he reached his best historical performance for Grand Slam tournaments in the All England, reaching the quarterfinals.
In the next phase of the London tournament, Pella will face off against the Russian Roman Safiullin, number 92 in the ATP ranking, who today dispatched the Frenchman Corentin Moutet 7-5, 6-3 and 7-6 (4), in what will be the first time they meet on the professional circuit.
Pella, who was absent from the circuit for more than a year due to various injuries, once again demonstrated his talent and good game today, which are also perfectly adapted to the grass and, especially, to Wimbledon.
The Frenchman took over the game in the opening set, with an imprecise and rushed Pella, on court number 5 of the All England Club, but adjusted his wrist from the second and began to command the court.
The second set was left by the Argentine with authority, thanks to his serve and his talented “left foot”. In the third he was on his way to achieving it again without incident, but when Pella served at 6-5 for the set, he unexpectedly gave up service at 0 and the definition went to the tie break, where he once again demonstrated his best game and overwhelmed the Frenchman to close it with a comfortable 7-3.
The fourth boy did not start in the best way for the Argentine, since he gave up his serve and was at a disadvantage until the eighth game, when he equalized the score 4-4 and collapsed the enthusiasm of the Frenchman, who gave up the serve in the twelfth game, Pella he prevailed 7-5 and earned the ticket to the third round of Wimbledon, after another outstanding performance after 2 hours and 44 minutes of confrontation.
Previously, Francisco Cerúndolo, Argentina’s greatest hope and first national racket, was eliminated in the second round of Wimbledon, losing to the Czech Jiri Lehecka (37) with a final score of 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 in just 1 hour, 26 minutes on field 11 of the All England Club.
Cerúndolo, the eighteenth favorite of the Grand Slam that is played on British grass, had a failed day that was reflected in his statistical list: 54% of points won with his first serve, 42% with the second serve, 6/10 break chances ceded his rival, just 14 winners and 26 unforced errors against 16 for the Czech, very distant from what was produced yesterday when he beat the Portuguese Nuno Borges (69).
The Argentine arrived in London with reinforced expectations after being crowned last week in the Eastbourne tournament, which meant the first consecration of a compatriot on grass in 28 years.
In this way, he closed his second participation in the British “major” after falling last year in the first round and far from repeating what has been done so far this year.
On the other hand, first thing in the morning, Tomás Martín Etcheverry, born in La Plata and ranked 32 in the ATP world ranking, lost to Swiss Stan Wawrinka (88) 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 and 6-2 after 2 hours and 34 minutes of play in a game played on pitch number 3 of the All England Club, in London.
The 23-year-old from La Plata had beaten the Spanish Bernabé Zapata Miralles (53) in the initial round, but he did not repeat that level against a tennis player of a higher hierarchy like the Swiss, winner of three Grand Slams: Australia 2014, Roland Garros 2015 and US Open 2016.
Etcheverry, who had reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros, in the best performance of his career, remained in the match until the third set, when he suffered a break to fall behind 2-0 and could not recover, since from At that moment the dominance of the Swiss was accentuated.
Wawrinka will play his next match against Serbian Novak Djokovic (2), winner of 23 Grand Slam tournaments, including the two that were played this year in Australia and Roland Garros, and seven-time Wimbledon champion, the last four in a row.
In turn, in the women’s draw, Nadia Podoroska (80) from Rosario, after her debut with a win over the Czech Tereza Martincova (115), could not keep up and fell unmitigatedly to the Belarusian Victoria Azarenka (20) by 6-3 and 6-0, after 1 hour and 23 minutes of a disparate confrontation.
The 33-year-old Belarusian, who was twice Australian champion (2012 and 2013), will play her next match against the Russian Daria Kasatkina (10), who beat the British Jodie Burrage (108) 6-0 and 6 -2.
In other matches of the day the following results were given:
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (Spain, 34) to Arthur Fils (France, 61) by 7-6 (3), 6-1 and 6-2; Hubert Hurckacz (Poland, 18) to Jan Choinski (Great Britain, 164) by 6.4, 6-4 and 7-6 (3); Lorenzo Musetti (Italy, 16) to Jaume Munar (Spain, 109) by 6-4, 6-3 and 6-1.
Quentin Halys (France, 79), to Aleksandar Vukic (Australia, 87) by 6-3, 6-1 and 6-4; Alexander Bublic (Kazakhstan, 26) to JJWolf (USA, 48) by 6-3, 7-6 (5) and 6-0; Maximilian Marterer (Germany, 170) beat Michael Mmoh (USA, 119) by 7-5, 7-6 (5) and 6-4 and Roberto Carballes Baena (Spain, 57) beat Matteo Arnaldi (Italy, 80).
Elina Svitolina (Ukraine, 76) to Elise Mertense (Belgium, 28) by 6-1, 1-6 and 6-1; Jule Niemeier (Germany, 103) to Karolina Muchova (Czech R., 16) by 6-4, 5-7 and 6-1; Dalma Galfi (Hungary, 126) to Linda Noskova (Czech R., 45); Anhelina Kalinina (Ukraine, 26) to Jessica Bouzas Maneiro (Spain, 167) by 6-4 and 6-3.
Sofia Kenin (USA, 128) to Xinyu Wang (China, 73) by 6-4 and 6-3; Lesia Tsukernko (Ukraine, 60) beat Katerina Siniakova (R.Czech, 32) by 6-4 and 6-1 and Mirra Andreeva (Russia, 102) beat Barbora Krejcikova (R.Czech, 11) by 6-3, 4- 0 and withdraw.
The Wimbledon tournament, the third Grand Slam on the annual calendar, began on Monday with nine Argentines in the individual draws and eight of them were left out between the first and second rounds of the tournament (Pedro Cachín, Juan Manuel and Francisco Cerúndolo, Sebastián Báez , Sebastián Coria, Diego Schwartzman, Tomás Martín Etcheverry and Nadia Podoroska).
Source: Ambito
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