The Argentine, last in the singles race, defeated Paul in four sets and settled in the fourth round. Etcheverry could not defend the quarterfinals: he fell to Ruud.
Francisco Cerúndolo He beat the American Tommy Paul in four sets and advanced to the round of 16 of Roland Garroswhile Tomás Martín Etcheverry he lost to the Norwegian Casper Ruud.
For the second consecutive year, the 23rd seed advanced to the round of 16 of the second Grand Slam of the season, this time, by beating the American racket by 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 and 6-2 in 2 hours and 50 minutes.
A year after having fallen in the round of 16 against the Dane Holger Rune, the Buenos Aires native will try to break the wall of this phase in Paris against the winner of the duel between the Serbian Novak Djokovicworld number 1 and defending champion, and the Italian Lorenzo Musetti.
For his part, the 24-year-old from La Plata was eliminated at Roland Garros in the third round where he was defeated by the Norwegian Ruud, finalist in the last two editions, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 and 6-2.
Etcheverry will not be able to match his performance from last year where he reached the quarterfinals and lost to the German Alexander Zverev. The tennis player from La Plata fought against the Norwegian in the first two sets but his performance dropped after the third set and he was surpassed by the solidity of his rival.
Horacio Zeballos, the Argentine number one in the world in doubles along with the Spanish Marcel Granollers, continues to advance in the Parisian Grand Slam and, this Saturday, they beat the Austrian duo Lucas Miedler and Alexander Erler 7-6 (3) and 6-2 in just under of an hour and a half. In this way, they went to the round of 16 at Roland Garros where they await the winners of the cross between Eubanks/King and Nys/Zielinski.
Source: Ambito
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