The No. 2 of Argentina defeated the local Monteiro 6-4, 1-6 and 6-2 and is in the semis. Thus, he will clash against the 22nd in the world, who beat the Serbian Lajovic 3-6, 6-4 and 6-4.
Francisco Cerúndolo and Sebastian Baez They won their respective matches today and tomorrow they will face each other in the semifinals of the ATP 500 of Rio de Janeirowhich is played on brick dust and distributes $2,100,230 in prizes.
The competition will then have at least one Argentine in the final. You can join the semis later Mariano Navonewho plays with the local Joao Fonseca.
cerundolothe current number one of the tennis Argentine (22nd in the ATP world ranking), beat Serbian Dusan Lajovic (58th), 3-6, 6-4 and 6-4. Thus he took revenge for the fall suffered in his only previous event, last year in the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati, United States, on a fast surface.
The 25-year-old Argentine recovered his best version in Rio after a start to the year without results: he successively beat the Mar del Plata player Francisco Comesaña (119), Catalan Albert Ramos (96) and now to Lajovic.
Báez (30), for his part, beat the Brazilian left-hander Thiago Monteiro (117) by 6-4, 1-6 and 6-2. In this way he went 4-1 in the history after beating him in the Challengers from Campinas, Brazil, and Buenos Airesboth in 2021, and at the ATP in Santiago de Chile, in 2022. The only defeat against Monteiro was in the 2022 edition of the ATP in Rio.
Navone (113), for his part, will face Joao Fonseca (655), the great promise of 17-year-old Brazilian tennis at night.
The Argentine tennis player born in the Buenos Aires city of 9 de Julio 22 years ago won his first two matches in an ATP in Rio, against Rosario’s Federico Coria (85) and the German Yannick Hanfmann (56). The Brazilian beat the Argentine the only time they met, in the 2022 Sao Leopoldo Challenger.
The winner of the match will go in the semifinals against the Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild (82) or the British Cameron Norrie (23), who defends the title he won last year after winning the final over the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz (2).
Source: Ambito
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