Sebastian Baez defeated today Facundo Díaz Acosta by 7-6 (1) and 6-3, in a duel between Argentines, to advance to the quarterfinals of the ATP 500 of tennis of Rio de Janeiroin Brazil.
Báez, a native of the Buenos Aires city of San Martín and ranked 30th in the ATP world ranking, beat Díaz Acosta (59), born in Vicente López, who was the Argentine tennis player, after 1 hour and 50 minutes. of the moment after his title last Sunday at the Argentina Open.
Báez will play in the quarterfinals tomorrow against a Brazilian: Felipe Meligeni Alves (153) or Thiago Monteiro (117), who will face each other next in the Rio competition.
Meanwhile, the number one in Argentine tennis, Francisco Cerúndolo (22), settled in the quarterfinals the day before after having successively defeated Francisco Comesaña from Mar del Plata (119) and the Spanish Albert Ramos Viñolas (96), and will appear again tomorrow against the Serbian Dusan Lajovic (58), who Earlier today he defeated his compatriot Laslo Djere (35) 6-2 and 7-5.
The Rio competition, which takes place on clay courts and will distribute a total of $2,100,230 in prizes, has as defending champion the British Cameron Norrie (23), who today eliminated the Chilean Tomás Barrios Vera (120) by beating him 6-1 and 6-1.
Source: Ambito
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