The Argentine tennis player fell to the Polish Hurkacz 6-2 and 7-6 (2). In this way, he recorded his seventh loss in a row.
Francisco Cerundolo (29th in the world ranking) was eliminated in the first round of the ATP 500 in Astana after falling to the Pole Hubert Hurkacz (10th) by 6-2 and 7-6 (2). The contest that takes place in Kazakhstan, on a hard surface, and distributes 2,054,825 dollars in prizes.
The only Argentine tennis player in the competition suffered his seventh straight loss: The previous ones had been in Hamburg, the Canada Masters, the Cincinnati Masters, the US Open and the Davis Cup. His last victory was on July 22 against the Russian Aslan Karatsev in the quarterfinals of the German Open.
Anyway, Cerúndolo He did not have it easy at all in his presentation against the seventh seed of the contest. In the next round, the Pole will face off against the survivor of the duel that the Dutchman will star in tomorrow Tallon Greek Railway (54th) and Russian Alexander Bublik (43º).
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The competition will have the presence of Spanish Carlos Alcaraz (1st), who will debut against the Belgian David Goffin (66th). Meanwhile, the Serbian Novak Djokovic (7th) will give his first against the Chilean Christian Garin (81st) and Russian Daniil Medvedev (4th) will do it against the Spanish Albert Ramos-Vinolas (40º).
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