The Argentinian Sebastián Báez advanced to the round of 16 of the ATP 500 in Basel, Switzerland, by beating Australian Christopher O’Connell in his debut 6-7, 6-4, 6-3on an opening day in which the player from La Plata also won Tomás Martín Etcheverry against the American Sebastián Korda by 6-3,1-6 and 6-3.
The Buenos Aires native Baez, Located in 29th place in the ATP world ranking, he surpassed the Australian Christopher O’Connell (61), in a changing match after 2 hours and 20 minutes of play.
This way, Baez, Born in the Buenos Aires city of San Martín 22 years ago, he achieved his second victory against O’Connellwhom he had already beaten in the initial round of Sydney 2022, in three sets.
Baez The Norwegian will be measured in the second round against the winner of the crossing Holger Rune (6), first seeded, and the Serbian Miomar Kecmanovic (55), who will play tomorrow.
Later, the man from La Plata Tomás Martín Etcheverry (32) defeated the American Sebastián Korda (23), after 1 hour and 56 minutes of confrontation.
This way, Etcheverry It narrowed the history between both players, since in the two previous duels against each other there were victories for the one born in the Florida peninsula, both in the Toronto Masters 1000 and in Zhuhai, in both cases in 2023.
Etcheverry will face the Scotsman in the round of 16 Andy Murray (40), who previously beat the German Yannick Hanfmann (51) by 7-5and 6-4.
The other Argentine registered, the Buenos Aires Diego Schwartzman (104) will debut this Tuesday against the Australian Alex de Minaur (13th and fifth seed), who won the two previous matches: Queen’s and Tokyo, both this season and in Japan last week.
The ATP 500 in Basel, Switzerland, takes place on hard courts and will award prizes totaling 2,345,955 euros.
The Swiss tournament has four Argentine champions throughout history.
The man from Mar del Plata Guillermo Vilas He celebrated in 1978, when he defeated the American John McEnroe in the final, in four sets.
While the Cordovan David Nalbandian He was crowned in 2002, by defeating the Chilean in the definition Fernando Gonzalez, in three chapters. A year later the Santa Fe player lifted the maximum trophy Guillermo Coriawho defeated Nalbandian, for non-presentation.
For his part, the Tandilense Juan Martin del Potro He won the 2012 and 2013 editions and in both cases he beat the local Roger Federer in the final, who is the top winner in history with ten titles: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Source: Ambito
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