Diego Schwartzman he lost today with the youthful Daniil Ostapenkov 6-4 and 6-3 in the first point of the best-of-five series between Argentina and Belarus, at the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club, with an audience in the stands and valid for the playoffs reclassification for the World Group.
Schwartzman, ranked 15th in the ATP world rankings, performed well below his level and fell without mitigating after one hour and 37 minutes before Ostapenkov, 18 years old and ranked 63rd in the Juniors ranks, the category to which he belongs.
Schwartzman, who was erratic and powerless to change the course of the game (he talked a lot in each change of ends with his coach Juan Ignacio Chela), left the central court with his head down and with the certainty that he suffered one of the most painful defeats of his career, and it will be up to Pella not to cause major consequences for the Argentine team.
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