Los Argentines Federico CoriaFrancisco Cerúndolo and Sebastián Báez advanced today to the round of 16 of the ATP 250 tennis tournament in Bastad, Sweden, by beating Federico Delbonis from Buenos Aires, Pedro Sousa from Portugal and Fabio Fognini from Italy, respectively, while Tomás Martín Etcheverry from La Plata He was removed.
Rosario Federico Coria, ranked 65th in the ATP world ranking and finalist of the previous edition in Bastad, beat Federico Delbonis from Azul, from the tournament’s previous classification and ranked 84th in the ecumenical ranking, by 0 -6, 6-4 and 6-4 after exactly 2 hours of play.
Coria will be measured in the second ronda of the contest against the Russian Andrey Rublev (8), who will debut directly in this instance of the Scandinavian tournament.
In turn, the Buenos Aires Francisco Cerúndolo (39) defeated the Portuguese Pedro Sousa (430), who came from the qualy, by 6-4 and 6-3 after 1 hour and 28 minutes of confrontation.
Cerúndolo will face in the next phase against the Norwegian Casper Ruud (5), first seeded, who will also debut in the second round of the contest.
For his part, Sebastián Báez (34), a native of the city of San Martín from Buenos Aires, scored a very good victory against the talented Italian Fabio Fognini (64), a former Top Ten, by 6-3 and 6-4, then 1 hour and 22 minutes.
Báez will face in the second round the Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (36), who today eliminated the Portuguese Joao Sousa (60) by beating him 6-4, 6-2.
While Tomás Martín Etcheverry (78) from La Plata, from the tournament qualifier, lost against the Spanish Albert Ramos Viñolas (38) 6-3 and 6-3, in 1 hour and 39 minutes of contest.
Another Argentine, Diego Schwartzman (14) from Buenos Aires will draw the first round and will enter the second round against the Swedish Elias Ymer (134), who yesterday beat the German Daniel Altmaier (62) 6-4 and 7-6 (7). -5).
The history of Bastad, which takes place on clay surface courts and will distribute prizes totaling 597,900 euros, had two Argentines who were champions in the past.
Mariano Zabaleta from Tandil won the 2003 and 2004 editions, while Carlos Berlocq, from Chascomús, celebrated in 2013.
