The Buenos Aires Sebastian Baez continues on a positive streak and today entered the second round of the US Open at the Flushing Meadows complex in New York, by defeating Croatian Borna Coric, in straight sets.
The 22-year-old player born in the San Martín neighborhood won with scores of 7-5, 7-5 and 6-1, after two hours and 35 minutes of play on court number 13 of the New York venue, close to to Queens.
In this way, Báez, located in position 32 of the ATP world ranking, repeated a victory over Coric (23), as happened last weekend in the semifinal of the ATP 250 in Winston Salem, when the Argentine beat him by 6 -3, 6-7 (4) and 7-6 (7-2).
With the initial victory in this fourth and last Grand Slam of the season (on a hard surface and with prizes of 65 million dollars), the tennis player from San Martín made sure to receive at least 123 thousand dollars.
Báez’s next rival will be Brazilian Felipe Meligeni Alves (168), who defeated Australian James Duckworth (111), 6-4, 7-6 (11) and 6-3, after two hours and 15 minutes of fighting. .
There is a lonely history of confrontations between the two South American players and the victory corresponded to San Martín, in three sets, in the final of a Challenger 3 in Santiago de Chile (2021).
The other Argentine tennis players who appeared during the day concluded their respective debuts with defeats.
Thus, in the female team, Rosario Nadia Podoroska (70) lost without mitigation to the Chinese Qinwen Zheng (23), 6-1 and 6-0, in just 63 minutes of uneven competition.
But in the masculine field they also said goodbye prematurely, the bahiense Guido Pella plus the porteños diego schwartzman and Facundo Diaz Acosta.
The left-handed Pella (203) succumbed to the South African Lloyd Harris (177), with partials of 7-6 (5), 6-4 and 6-4, in 125 minutes.
‘Little’ Schwartzman (114) couldn’t do much against Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech (73), who beat him 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.
While the young Díaz Acosta (94), individual silver medalist at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games, fell to the experienced John Isner (157), 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (1 ).
For his part, the British Andy Murray (37), champion in the 2012 edition, won his 200th victory in Grand Slam events tonightby prevailing over the French Corentin Moutet (72), by 6-2, 7-5 and 6-3.
In the second round, the 36-year-old Scottish tennis player will face the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov (19), who defeated the Slovakian Alex Molcan (6-7, 6-7, 6-1, 7-5 and 7-6). 115). In the series of clashes with each other, Murray leads Dimitrov 8-3.
On the other hand, the Russian Daniel Medvedev (3) achieved a conclusive victory over the Hungarian Attila Balazs (unranked), 6-1, 6-1 and 6-0.
While the Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka (49), 38, defeated the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka (44) in straight sets (7-6, 6-2 and 6-4).
In addition, the Italian Jannik Sinner (sixth favorite) clearly dominated the German Yannick Hanfmann (54), whom he beat 6-3, 6-1 and 6-1.
Source: Ambito
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