Argentine tennis player Diego Schwartzman was eliminated this Saturday in three disputed sets ante the American Francis Tiafoe in the Tthird round of the US Openwhere there will no longer be Latino representatives in the individual category.
SchwartzmanATP number 16cayó ante Tiafoe (26th) by 7-6 (9/7), 6-4 and 7-5 in three hours and two minutes of game on the Louis Armstrong track, the second largest in Flushing Meadows (New York).
The Argentine enjoyed numerous occasions to pocket the first set. First he enjoyed a 2-5 lead and later up to five set points but Tiafoe resisted on his feet supported by his fans.
The burly American tennis player turned the ‘tiebreak’ around y appropriated the initial seta blow from which Schwartzman no longer recovered from the blow.
Always in Tiafoe’s tow, the tennis player from Buenos Aires threw in the towel when he suffered a definitive break in the final stretch of the third set.
“I feel that the level was very high but for details I couldn’t do it“he later lamented Schwartzman.
“It would have been good for me to get out like him and win some free points but everything else I did very well”, he affirmed. “The difference was in some moments that he played better”.
Tiafoewho hit nine aces to three for the Argentine, He is the first American to qualify three years in a row to the Eighth of the US Open since Mardy Fish did it in 2012.
In the case of Schwartzman, his best finish at Flushing Meadows will continue to be your two appearances in the quarterfinals of 2017 and 2019.
In this edition he offered an irregular performance. at the first crossing benefited from abandonment from the american Jack Sockaffected by back problems after winning the first two sets, but in the second it got better his performance and eliminated to the Australian Alexei Popyrin in three sets.
The Argentine also referred to the emotional farewell who lived on friday Serena Williamswhich still echoed in Flushing Meadows.
At almost 41 years old, the champion of 23 Grand Slam tournaments put up a heroic resistance saving five match points against Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic, before suffering the final defeat and receiving a moving tribute on Center Court.
“I saw it and it was impressive”, underlined Schwartzman. “Yesterday you saw people from other sports, from other jobs, vibrating and crying, getting emotional. He was a great game and I liked the words he said afterwards. It is an icon of everything“.
