Baez, born in the Buenos Aires city of San Martín 21 years ago and ranked 77th in the ATP world ranking, he defeated the Chilean Garín (18), after 2 hours and 9 minutes of play, with a level of hierarchy and authority that amaze due to the short professional career of the promising Argentine tennis player.
The first set was changeable, in which Baez he always tried to take the initiative with an aggressive and effective game that dislodged the trans-Andean player, but Garín’s experience allowed him to win the set 6-4, in which he broke twice, although he gave up service twice in favor of the Argentine
The beginning of the second set marked the definitive course of the match, since Báez recovered from the break on loan in the first game and, after recovering it, in the next, he put together five games in a row to brilliantly win the sleeve for a resounding 6-1.
In the third set the magic of Baez, who came to add three more games, go 3-0 and accumulate 8 games in a row before the impotence of Garín, who won the tournament in the second edition in 2020.
Garín interrupted Báez’s onslaught, leading 1-3, but it was a mirage because the native of Buenos Aires controlled everything again and kept the sleeve, again 6-1, in the third match point he had.
Baez He obtained his best victory since he became a professional, surpassing Garín, top 20, who made his debut tonight in the contest and was the favorite to achieve it, to establish himself as the maximum promise of national tennis.
In the quarterfinals, Báez will play with the winner of the crossover of the last match of the day and the round of 16, which featured the Chilean Alejandro Tabilo (144) and the Spanish Carlos Taberner (105).
Previously, in the first game of the day, the Spanish Albert Ramos Viñolas (44) beat the Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas (129) 6-4, 2-3 due to an injury to the South American player.
Next, Ramos Viñolas’s rival in the quarterfinals was defined, in the match that the Italian Lorenzo Sonego (23) beat the Spanish Roberto Carballés Baena (76) by 4-6, 7-6 (7-1) and 6-2.
Tomorrow it will be the turn of the quarterfinals and two other Argentines already had the ticket to that instance: Diego Schwarztman from Buenos Aires (14) and Juan Ignacio Londero (139) from Cordoba.
Schwartzman, the first seed, who yesterday beat Juan Pablo Ficovich (230) from Buenos Aires in the round of 16 of the contest, by a resounding 6-3 and 6-2, will face Colombian Daniel Galán (127), who beat the Spaniard Jaume Munar (88) 6-2, 3-6 and 6-1.
Meanwhile, Cordoban Londero, winner of the 2019 edition of the tournament, beat the Spanish Pedro Martínez (61) the day before, 6-3 and 7-6, after an hour and 40 minutes of fighting, and will face the Serbian tomorrow. Nikola Milojevic, who beat Tomás Martín Etcheverry from La Plata (128) 6-3 and 7-6 (7-3).
The fourth edition of the ATP 250 in Córdoba takes place on clay courts at the Mario Alberto Kempes stadium facilities and distributes a total of 493,875 dollars in prizes.
Source: Ambito
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