Báez, 20, a native of the Buenos Aires city of San Martín and ranked 111th in the ATP world rankings, dispatched the Frenchman Gastón (67) with great authority and forcefulness.
The Argentine did a superb job, and with great effectiveness with his first service and with precise and corner shots, he crushed the promising Gastón, who chewed anger throughout the match and had to accept as he was out of the contest, after just 1 hour and 7 minutes of confrontation.
Now, Báez will play on Friday for the semifinals, but still without a defined rival because he must wait for the result of the second match of the group between the American Sebastián Korda (39) and the Italian Lorenzo Musetti (58), to know in what position he finishes in the zone .
Baez had made his debut in the competition with a win against Musetti and on Wednesday he had lost against Korda.
While the porteño Juan Manuel Cerúndolo concluded his participation in the Next Gen ATP Finals with three defeats in group A, falling earlier to the Spanish favorite Carlos Alcaraz, first seeded and who remained with the leadership in group A of the tournament.
Cerúndolo, ranked 91st in the ecumenical tennis rankings, was defeated by Alcaraz (32) after 1 hour and 25 minutes of play, at the multi-purpose Allianz Cloud stadium in Milan.
The 19-year-old Argentine had previously lost his other two group matches, to American Brandon Nakashima (63) and Danish Holger Rune (109), while Alcaraz, top seed for the title, won all three he played.
In turn, American Brandon Nakashima beat the Danish Holger Rune 3-4 (3-7), 4-1, 4-1 and 4-3 (7-1) in the other group match, qualified second and went to the semifinals.
The Next Gen ATP Finals, which meets its fourth edition, always in Milan, has an agile game format with matches to the best of five sets but these are four games (also with a gold point when the score reaches 40-40) , with a tie-break if it reaches 3-3, and the first two of each group will advance to the semifinals.
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